Commentaries on the Bible

Description

Title: Commentaries on the Bible
Published / Created: [ca. 1180]
Publication Place: Northern Italy (Morimondo, Milan?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of biblical commentaries
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by a single hand in Praegothica still close to Carolina. There are short running headlines in Gothica Cursiva up to f. 124r and again from f. 140v to the end.
Large Romanesque initials in red.
Binding: 15th century. Blind stamped leather over wooden boards, repaired and recovered. Flyleaves are from a 12th-century Italian homilary (?).
Provenance: Purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1983.
Extent: ff. i + i + 165 + i + i : 314 x 209 (225 x 141) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bible > Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Commentaries on the Bible. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.