Harvard University, MS Richardson 26

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10768

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 26

Title:

Opera varia

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1125-1200

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 150 leaves, bound : vellum ; 33 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bacon, Nicholas, Sir, 1509-1579

Nicholas Bacon WIKIDATA

Beatty, A. Chester Sir, 1875-1968

Alfred Chester Beatty WIKIDATA

Holt family Wilson, George Holt

George Rowland Holt Wilson WIKIDATA

Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a late Carolingian minuscule in 2 columns of 40 lines; pen-work initials in color.
Written at the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, England.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Table of contents at the beginning, in a later hand.
Bound in original white deerskin over wooden boards, with strap.
In a tray case, 37 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (A.6, later n. LXVII); probably to Sir Nicholas Bacon; inherited by the Holt family of Redgrave; George Holt Wilson of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 21 july 1910, lot 159); to Quaritch (cat. 321, Dec. 1912, n. 249; 344, 1916, n. 42; 357, 1920, n. 380); A. Chester Beatty in 1920 (MS 25); his sale (London, 7 June 1932, I, lot 6...

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098828660203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141182

Holding Institution:

Harvard University