Harvard University, MS Typ 277

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10908

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 277

Title:

Commentary on the Pauline Epistles

Author:

Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154

Gilbert de La Porrée WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1160-ca. 1200

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 168 leaves, bound : vellum ; 31 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Augustinerkloster Neuwerk bei Halle (Germany)

Neuwerk Nunnery WIKIDATA

Landesbibliothek Gotha

Gotha Research Library WIKIDATA

Note:

The commentary in the outer usually wider column is written in a minuscule hand, 47 lines per page. The biblical text in the inner column is in a larger hand approaching gothic, 26-23 lines per page.
Written in Germany.
There are 17 illuminated initials in colors and gold, of which 3 are historiated (ff. 1r, 110v, 116r). Others have dragons and birds. Minor initials are red or blue with pen-work decoration.
Bound in contemporary deerskin over thick wooden boards. There is a vellum bookmark. See curatorial file for details of binding.
In a tray case, 35 cm.
Augustinerkloster Neuwerk bei Halle (15th.-cent. ownership inscription inside front board); Gotha Library (slip removed to curatorial file).
Gift of Philip Hofer in honor of Rodney G. Dennis, 1983.

Keyword:

bookmarks

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097014960203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:481742119

Holding Institution:

Harvard University