Flores historiarum

Description

Title: Flores historiarum
Creator: Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
Published / Created: [ca. 1350]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Matthew of Westminster, Flores historiarum. Written presumably at the Cluniac priory of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, Surrey
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in bold gothic textura; x is crossed.
Rubrics, often accompanied by notes to rubricator in well formed current Anglicana script. Decorative initials not filled in. Numerous pen trials and crude drawings in margins (e.g., ff. 28r, 46v, 47r, 63r).
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf with a gold-tooled title. Parchment flyleaves (formerly pastedowns) from a Missal (England, 15th century) much rubbed and worn, and with offset impression from original binding of corner tongues and four attachments. Gothic textura. Fine blue initials with intricate herringbone penwork designs in red. Headings in red; paragraph marks in blue.
Provenance: Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 15732). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1968 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
Extent: ff. iii + 1 + 87 + i + iii : 384 x 260 (289 x 196) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Great Britain
Subject (Name): Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Missals
History
Subjects: Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Missals
Great Britain > History > 1066-1687
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Matthew Paris, Flores Historiarum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.