Confessions

Description

Title: Confessions
Creator: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Published / Created: 1469
Publication Place: Huysburg, Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on calfskin parchment of Augustine's Confessions, with alphabetical index; also includes Augustine's Retractions
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand in Gothica Hybrida Formata.
Decoration: Stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks, underlinings and headings all in red. 3-line plain initials alternately in red and blue at the opening of the chapters, sometimes with white decoration. Generally undecorated after f. 36.
Binding: original, brown leather over wooden boards. Spine has four raised bands. The covers are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges traced in triple fillets and floral designs. Red leather tabs at the beginning of each book of the art. 2 and at the beginning of art. 3.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 116+1 : 300 x 215 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic): Biography
Manuscripts, Medieval
Theology
History
Subjects: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Biography > To 500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Theology > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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