Harvard University, MS Riant 20

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11059

Shelfmark:

MS Riant 20

Title:

Four gospels in Latin

Date:

between 1100 and 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

ill.

Physical Description:

Extent: 179 leaves, bound : ill. ; 10 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Riant, comte 1836-1888

Paul Riant WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in small caroline minuscule in 25 long lines and marginal annotations; with headings and colored initials in red, and geometric-style initials within a full-page decorative frontispiece to each gospel (ff. 12r, 62r, 92r, 142v); written in Italy.
Begins, Prologus Sancti Hieronimi presbyteri in libris quattuor Evangeliorum.
Bound in 19th-cent. French black morocco with marbled endpapers; by Dupré.
In a tray case, 20 cm.
Belonged to Paul Edouard Didier, comte de Riant.
Gift of J. Randolph Coolidge and Archibald Cary Coolidge, 1899.

Keyword:

evangeliaries

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097806000203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:14354464

Holding Institution:

Harvard University