Biblical distinctiones
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Description
- Title
- Biblical distinctiones
- Creator
- Durand, of Huesca
- Published / Created
- [between 1200 and 1235]
- Publication Place
- Southern France or Spain
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Durand of Huesca (ca. 1160-1224?), Biblical Distinctiones, an early 13th-century revision of Peter of Capua's (d. 1214) Alphabetum in artem sermocinandi. Marston MS 266 is apparently the only known witness to Durand's revision. With Rhymed life of Peter of Capua , in quatrains, composed by Durand of Huesca
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in a fine early gothic bookhand by several scribes, above top line.
Nice penwork initials, 7- to 3-line, for each letter of the alphabet, blue with red or vice versa. Smaller initials, 2-line, in similar but less intricate designs for chapter divisions. Chapter numbers, some initials, plain line fillers, and text divisions in red. Ornamental border, in red, encloses common ending for verses on f. 1r-v. Spaces for rubrics left unfilled. Majuscules in text stroked with pale yellow.
Beginning and end of codex worm and rodent damaged.
Binding: Date? Fragmentary binding. Resewn with a chain stitch and the spine lined with coarse cloth. Plain, wound endbands and paste boards (composed of paper and parchment fragments of manuscripts), that once were covered with brick red tawed skin. Traces of two ties. Outline of rectangular label, now missing, on upper cover. - Provenance
- Purchased from Enzo Ferrajoli, Barcelona, in 1959 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 284 : 250 x 177 (162 x 125) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 266
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Spain 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Durand, of Huesca.
Peter, of Capua, Cardinal. - Subject (Topic)
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Biography
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholasticism - Subjects
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Durand, of Huesca
Peter, of Capua, Cardinal
Bible > Commentaries
Biography > Middle Ages, 500-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholasticism
France > 13th century
Spain > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Durand of Huesca, Biblical Distinctiones. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9854990
- Object ID (OID)
- 10187198
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