Quaestiones in vetus testamentum

Description

Title: Quaestiones in vetus testamentum
Creator: Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Published / Created: [between 1150 and 1200]
Publication Place: Morimondo
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Isidore of Seville, Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by various hands, all writing Praegothica.
Red headings, chapter numbers and running headlines. Red, blue, brown or green half inset 2-line (sometimes 1-line) plain initials. Yellow heightening of the opening majuscules in the chapter lists. 4-line decorated initial in green, blue and red on f. 1r.
Binding: early binding, the back repaired with a piece of leather fixed with nails: dark brown leather over wooden boards. On both covers numerous marks of clasps, bosses and corner pieces. On the rear cover remnants of a paper title label. On the back a parchment label with the handwritten s. XVII title "S. Isidor. Hisp. / In Sacr. Script."
Provenance: On f. 136v, in the lower margin, in tiny Humanistica Cursiva s. XV: "Iste liber est monasterii sanctę Marię de Morimundo, Mediolanensis diocesis. Si quis furatus eum fuerit, sit anathema [sit]. Numero XXXV° [corrected from XX**I°]". The codex belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo (northwest of Pavia).
Extent: ff. I +136 : 270 x 190 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic): Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Bible > Commentaries
Bible. O.T.
Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Isidore of Seville, Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.