Expositio libri regum, etc
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Description
- Title
- Expositio libri regum, etc
- Creator
- Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
- Published / Created
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Publication Place
- Trois-Fontaines, France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: the original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional sections are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script.
The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials.
Binding: 18th century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription. Red mottled edges. - Provenance
- Collection of J.R. Ritman, bought from H.P. Kraus in 1988 (bookplate, MS BPH 92). Albert H. Childe Memorial Collection at Yale University Library (armorial bookplate).
- Extent
- ff. 190 : 275 x 195 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 1040
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Commentaries
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856.
Solomon, King of Israel.
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) - Subject (Topic)
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Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons, Latin - Subjects
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Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
Solomon, King of Israel
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Bible > Commentaries
Bible. O.T. Kings
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons, Latin > Early works to 1800
France > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Rabanus Maurus, Expositio libri Regum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9893511
- Object ID (OID)
- 2042540
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