Harvard University, MS Richardson 14

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DS ID:

DS10774

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 14

Title:

Contra Faustum

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1175-1200

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 166 leaves, bound : vellum ; 39 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Dunn, George, 1864-1912

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Abbaye de Pontigny

Pontigny Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a late Carolingian minuscule in 3 hands in 2 columns of 36 lines; colored initials and headings in red with simple pen flourishes.
Title from incipit.
Written in France, probably for the Cistercians of Pontigny, near Auxerre.
Bound in half calf with black cloth; Bretherton, 1849.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny (n. 136), until 1800; sold ca. 1829 by Abbé Joseph-Félix Allard to Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 3720); his sale (London, 1898, n. 57); to Leighton; bought by George Dunn in June 1899; his sale (London, 11 Feb. 1913, I, n. 384); to Payne; sale by Sotheby's (London, 17 July 1913, n. 1428); to Nash; sale by Sotheby's (London, 23 July 1928, n. 1008); to...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Manichaeism

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098833670203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:34816625

Holding Institution:

Harvard University