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1. Aurora
- Creator:
- Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209
- Published / Created:
- [between 1175 and 1200, ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 34
- Image Count:
- 284
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of three parts, of Petrus Riga, Aurora, Biblia Versificata (a Latin verse translation of the Bible). Parts I and III in the same format and possibly from the same manuscript
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1-72 and 113-136): Copied by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand, with first letter of each verse usually aligned on the second vertical bounding line. Part II (ff. 73-112): Written by multiple scribes in a larger module and a neater gothic script than that in Parts I and III; each verse is justified by the placement of the final letter along outer vertical ruling. Script has often been retraced., Parts I and III: Red initials, plain or with modest designs throughout. Headings in red often added to right of text. First letter of each verse stroked in red or ochre, often by drawing a single line the length of the written space. Part II: Plain initials and headings in red throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Belgium. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with the Arenberg arms on the sides. Title on spine: "Sacrae Scripturae excerptae/ Circa 1225-50". Remains of old fore-edge tabs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aurora
2. Aurora
- Creator:
- Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 987
- Image Count:
- 738
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Riga, Aurora, as well as Aegidius Parisiensis, De poenis inferni, and an unrecorded poem on the vices and virtues
- Description:
- Script: main text copied by three hands writing Gothica Textualis Libraria: scribe A (ff. 1r-198r and 243r-279v6); B (ff. 198v-204v) wrote larger and bolder; C (ff. 205r-242v and 279v7-360r)., Decoration: headings in red, partly written in the margins, missing after f. 350r. Line fillers at the end of almost every line. Guide letters; flourished initials., Binding: 19th century, signed by P. Lefebvre: dark blue straight-grained leather over cardboard, the covers decorated with simple frames of gold-tooled fillets., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209. and Abbaye de Cîteaux.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aurora
