Harvard University, MS Richardson 2

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10453

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 2

Title:

Evangelium S. Johannis; cum glossa ordinaria

Date:

ca. 1175-1200

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 v. (82 leaves) : vellum ; 24 cm.

Note:

Volume 1: text; bound in 20th-century stamped white pigskin and housed in a tray case, 27 cm. Volume 2: original binding, 18th-century brown Italian calf.
Written in a rounded protogothic book script in brown ink in one column with marginal and interlinear gloss; headings in orange, blanks remain for initials. Marginal notes added in lead point in a later hand.
Written at the Cistercian monastery of S. Mary, Morimondo, Italy.
Cf. a glossed gospel of Mark, also copied at Morimondo, in the Grenville Kane collection.
Biblical text was copied without chapter divisions.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to the Cistercian monastery of S. Mary, Morimondo (diocese of Milan), at least until the 18th cent., when it was rebound (ex-libris inscriptions); purchased by Ulrico Hoepli of Milan about 1882; J. Martini (cat. 13, 1917, no. 13; and cat. 14, 1918, no. 6); to Richardson.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Bible. John

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098765690203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:16386044

Holding Institution:

Harvard University