De trinitate (fragment).

Description

Title: De trinitate (fragment).
Creator: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Published / Created: [between 950 and 999]
Publication Place: Southern Germany
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of selections from Books I and IV of St. Augustine of Hippo's De trinitate
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in Caroline minuscule.
Decoration: crude 6-line initial "D" and 5-line initial "L" in brown and orange-red ink, L terminates in a bird's head; 1-line initials in brown uncials with enlarged minuscule "e" and frequently touched in red on f. 1r; incipits and explicits in brown rustic capitals and the word explicit traced in red; punctuated primarily with punctus; three scribes; scribe one occasionally uses punctus elevatus and punctus versus; contemporary corrections in lighter ink.
Provenance: Notation suggests that f. 1 was once in the binding of Lambach, Stiftsbibliothek, Ccl 289. Similarly, notation on f. 2 suggests that leaf was once the flyleaf in Lambach Ccl 284.
Extent: ff. 1-3: 210 x 170 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 10th 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): Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 10th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: St. Augustine of Hippo, De trinitate (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.