Commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus

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Title: Commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus
Creator: Petrus, Cantor, approximately 1130-1197
Published / Created: [ca. 1200]
Publication Place: France (?)
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Petrus Cantor (c. 1130-1197), Commentum in libros Proverbiorum, Ecclesiastes, Sapientiae et Ecclesiastici
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in flourished majuscules alternately red and blue; they stop after f. 6.
Many leaves are badly soiled.
Red underlining of biblical passages. 2-line flourished initials with extensions in the margin or in the intercolumnar space; they are in red and blue on ff. in quire I, in red only in quires II-III (two flourished initials on f. 1v are also executed only in red); two initials of that type are missing, ff. 11r and 16r. Larger initials at the beginning of the commentary of new Bible books: 4-line littera duplex "B(eatus)" on f. 4r, Prologue to Ecclesiastes; 3-line "Q(uecumque)" on f. 8v, Prologue to Wisdom; 11-line "S(ummi)" and 6-line "O(mnis)", both red on beige background, on f. 15r, Prologue and text of Ecclesiasticus.
Binding: unbound.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Extent: ff. 16 : 445 x 330 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th 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): Petrus, Cantor, approximately 1130-1197.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholasticism
Subjects: Petrus, Cantor, approximately 1130-1197
Bible > Commentaries
Bible. Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus
Bible. Ecclesiastes
Bible. Proverbs
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholasticism
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Petrus Cantor, Commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.