Passionary

Description

Title: Passionary
Published / Created: [between 900 and 1000?]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf (cut in halves in the middle of the height) of Passion of St. Terentianus, bishop of Todi (1 Sept.).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in Beneventan script.
Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in red and yellow. 5-line initials in same colours.
Stained with paste. The outer edge is heavily trimmed and 8 rectangular cuttings have caused important text losses in the outer column.
Used in a binding. On the top of the verso, in the middle and at the bottom of the leaf the offset of texts written on a flyleaf (?) of the binding from which the fragments were taken [to be read with a mirror]. In the inner margin of the same verso is an undeciphered 19th-century inscription.
Provenance: The fragments are taken from a printed book preserved in the Beinecke Library (Zi.+4428): Bonaventura, Commentarius in secundum librum sententiarum Petri Lombardi (Venice, 1477).
Extent: f. 1 : 510 x 240 mm. (?).
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 10th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 10th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Passionary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.