De caelesti hierarchia

Description

Title: De caelesti hierarchia
Creator: Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
Contributor: Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
Published / Created: [ca. 1300]
Publication Place: France (?)
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Ps.-Dionysius Areopagita, De caelesti hierarchia, translated into Latin by Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), with his commentary
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria in two sizes. The large script used for the text itself is written every two lines. The cursive r-abbreviation could point to England, the z standing on the line and the occasional use of j instead of i reminds us of Spain, the "horn" at the head of r is especially typical of German scribes.
The decoration consists of plain late Romanesque initials in red (2 lines).
Provenance: Purchased in 1972 from S. Harrison Thomson on the Beinecke Endowment Fund.
Extent: ff. 6 215 x 165 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th 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): Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
Franciscans
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts
Astronomy, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Subjects: Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
Franciscans > Manuscripts
Astronomy, Medieval
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, De Caelesti Hierarchia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.