Saint Louis University, VFL MS 057

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10043

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 057

Title:

Legenda aurea

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Jacobus de Voragine WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1300].

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 20 single leaves : parchment ; 220 x 150 mm

Note:

Ms. leaves.
Layout: Written in 38 double column lines.
Script: Semitextualis.
Decoration: Illuminated initials alternating in red or blue with pen work in the opposite color at major divisions in text; paragraph markers in red or blue and initials of first words highlighted in red.
Origin: Written in Italy ca. 1300.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 057.
Purchased in two sets of ten from Boyd Mackus with funds from the Saint Louis Library Associates, May 2010, 2013.

Keyword:

detached leaves

manuscripts (documents)

Gothic scripts

Church history--Sources

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Christian saints--Legends

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b3402300

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS057_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University