Vitae patrum

Description

Title: Vitae patrum
Published / Created: [between 1175 and 1200]
Publication Place: Spain (Toledo)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica.
Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration.
Mutilated.
Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund in 1981.
Extent: ff. i + 106 + i : 515 x 365 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Spain 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Spain > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Vitae Patrum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.