Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 66.1

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18063

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 66.1

Title:

Historia monachorum] /

Lives of the Fathers

Place:

Germany?

Germany TGN

Date:

approximately 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 125 leaves : paper ; trimmed to 289 x 214 (180 x 120) mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Paper, fol. 125 (foliated 2-126) ; collation impracticable.
Layout: Written in 29-37 long lines ; frame ruled in pencil.
Script: Written in gothic cursiva formata degenerating to cursiva media; headings in red in script of text.
Decoration: fol. 2r: green initial with yellow-brown flourishes 16 lines high extended to form bracket border on inner, upper, and lower margin; fol. 70r: similar initial 7 lines high also extended to for bracket border.
Origin: Written in Germany in the middle of the 15th century.
Typed dealer's description tipped to front pastedown.

Keyword:

Biographies

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356

Hermits

Early works

Saints

Malchus, Saint

Paul, the Hermit, Saint, -approximately 341

Christian saints

Monastic and religious life

History

30-600

Monastic and religious life--Early church

Hilarion, Saint, approximately 291-approximately 371

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma997563468805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBTIE4

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library