Gesta Silvestri papae; Liber Quare, etc

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Title: Gesta Silvestri papae; Liber Quare, etc
Published / Created: [between 1200 and 1250]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Gesta Silvestri papae (d. 335). 2) Excerpts from Liber Quare (11th century?) containing notes on the liturgy and church year. 3) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Sermo. 4) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), Epistula 54. With Anonymous sermons
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis Libraria.
Space for headings not used. A red line-filler on f. 21v. Plain initials of 1-3 lines in red, located partially in the text, partially in the margin, at the beginning of all artt. (except artt. 4, 6 and 12); in art. 1 also at the beginning of the text itself. The words after an initial generally in majuscules; other words often in majuscules are “Maria”, “rex Salomon”, “Amen”.
Binding: ca. 1900. Pasteboard covered with large sections of two parchment leaves from a 15th-century antiphonary (?) from Germany, with Hufnagel notation on 4-line staves traced in black, brown and red. The handwriting is Gothica Textualis Formata. The leaf on the rear cover has the folio number “208”.
Provenance: Acquired on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 32 + i : 240 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Sylvester I, Pope, d. 335.
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Christian hagiography
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons, Latin
Subjects: Sylvester I, Pope, d. 335
Catholic Church > Liturgy
Christian hagiography
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons, Latin
Germany > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Gesta Silvestri Papae; Liber Quare, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.