Harvard University, MS Lat 213

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DS ID:

DS10505

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 213

Title:

Tractatus Sancti Augustini episcopi in epistolas Sancti Iohannis evangelistae de caritate

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1100 and 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 92 leaves, bound : vellum ; 25 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876

Ambroise Firmin Didot WIKIDATA

Gregory, Caspar René, 1846-1917

Caspar René Gregory WIKIDATA

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

James Russell Lowell WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Prämonstratenserabtei Weissenau

Weissenau Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a minuscule script in Germany, probably at the monastery of the Premonstratensian Canons of St. Peter at Weissenau near Ravensburg. One zoomorphic initial (f. 1r)
In a 19th-cent. French morocco binding, possibly by Niedrée.
In a tray case, 27 cm.
Probably belonged to the Premonstratensian Abbey at Weissenau (inscribed, f. 1r: "Biblioth. Weissenau;" bookplate of Ambroise Firmin-Didot by 1850; his sale to Parisian bookseller Adolphe Labitte; bought by Caspar Renée Gregory in 1886; given by James Russell Lowell to Charles E. Norton on 24 Feb. 1886.
Purchase, 1906.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Bible. Epistles of John

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093649570203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4261866

Holding Institution:

Harvard University