Collection of Texts on St. Barbara

Description

Title: Collection of Texts on St. Barbara
Alternative Title: Liber gloriose uirginis et martyris christi barbare
Contributor: Barbara, Saint
Published / Created: [between 1470 and 1480]
Publication Place: Northern Belgium
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies.
Description: Binding: ca. 1500, Belgium. Covered in brown calf with corner tongues over wooden boards, a central panel diapered with blind-tooled triple fillets. Center and corner fittings and title written in a careful gothic bookhand under a brass-framed window on the upper board: "liber gloriose uirginis et martyris christi barbare". Lower board cut in for the straps which are attached with metal plates. Hasps of a chain on the lower board. Rebacked.
Script: Written in a regular heavy hybrida formata script with features of bastarda by a single scribe who placed small circular flourishes above the letter u.
Extent: ff. 73 : parchment ; 214 x 148 (135 x 96) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: illuminated manuscripts (AAT)
Marginalia
Micrography (Writing technique)
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Barbara, Saint
Subject (Topic): Christian martyrs
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval --Connecticut --New Haven
Prophecies --Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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Orbis Record: 9855850
Object ID (OID): 2013555
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars287.htm