De decem praeceptis

Description

Title: De decem praeceptis
Creator: Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Published / Created: [approximately 1250]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single book hand, of a complete text of this commentary on the Ten Commandments
Description: In Latin.
Tipped in: printed catalog description of manuscript from Henry Young & Sons.
Stencilled crest of Sir Thomas Phillipps stamped on recto of first flyleaf.
Bookplate: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, pasted on front pastedown.
Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown.
Layout: double columns of 47 lines each.
Script: gothic textura.
Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law.
Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Previously owned by Thomas Thorpe; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 2316); George Dunn; Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 2014 July 16, lot 3) on the Edward J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014.
Extent: 26 l. : 260 x 190 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Ten commandments
Subjects: Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Ten commandments > Early works to 1800
England > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bright, Allan Heywood, 1862-1941 > Bookplate
Dunn, George, 1864-1912 > Bookplate
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 > Bookplate

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Citation: Robert Grosseteste, De decem praeceptis. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.