Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 12 v. 7

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18136

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 12 v. 7

Title:

Augustine, Confessiones

Confessions

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Place:

Reading, England

Date:

between 1150 and 1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 117 leaves : parchment ; 258 x 190 (205 x 120) mm

Former Owner(s):

Fownes, T

T. Fownes WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Reading Abbey (Reading, England)

Reading Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 117; 1-48 58(-1) 6-148 156.
Layout: Written in 34 long lines by two scribes, ruled in plummet with single boundary lines, the first two horizontal lines above and the last two below extending into margin.
Script: Written in Anglo-Norman caroline textualis formata.
Decoration: Decorated initials in red and green 6-8 lines high.
Origin: Written in England in the third quarter of the 12th century at Saint Mary's Reading.
Former owner's inscription: Hic est liber sancte Marie Radings quem qui celauerit vel fraudem de eo fecerit, anathema sit.
Former owner's signature: T. Fownes.
Formerly no. 241 in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Keyword:

textura (Gothic script)

manuscripts (documents)

Protogothic

illuminated manuscripts

Christian saints

Algeria--Hippo (Extinct city)

Biographies

Catholic Church

Bishops

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998669558805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBTEK1

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library