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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2215

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 72

Title:

Expositio in evangelium Mathei

Biblical expositions

Author:

Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856

Rabanus Maurus WIKIDATA

Place:

Fulda, Germany

Fulda TGN

Germany TGN

Date:

between 840 and 850

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 174 leaves : parchment ; 295 x 230 (220 x 155) mm bound to 300 x 240 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Robert Garrett WIKIDATA

Lilly, Joseph, 1804-1870

Joseph L. Lilly WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Savile, John, Sir, 1545-1607

John Savile WIKIDATA

Savile, Henry, Sir, 1549-1622

Sir Henry Savile WIKIDATA

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928

Henry Yates Thompson WIKIDATA

Sankt Victor (Benedictine Abbey : Xanten, Germany)

St. Viktor WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 6r.)
List of Gospel sequences for Temporale, Sanctorale, and Common of Saints (fol. 1r.-4r.), folios 6-8, and some blank pages added in the 15th century.
Incipit: “Incipit expositio in evangelium Mathei. Expositionem itaque scripturus in euangelium beati Mathei oportunum esse paucis primum intimare...”
Explicit: “... conscientia sine doctrine sanctę pabulo|"
Collation: Parchment ; fol. 174 ; quires signed ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 31 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Description: Written in Carolingian miniscule, later additions are in Gothic bookhand ; rubricated ; chapter numbers in red at the top of each recto.
Script: Carolingian minuscule (fols. 9r-174v) by several scribes, with a hierarchy of script for display, including Roman Square Capitals, Uncial, and Capitalis rustica.
Decoration: There is a 5-line initial E in red, blue, and green, and red penwork infilling; red and mauve pen flourishes extending into margin (fol. 6r). Other 9th-century 3- and 4-line Roman initials, painted black, at beginning of books 2-5, are not decorated.
Origin: Written in the scriptorium at Fulda, probably about 840-850.
Owned by the Benedictine Abbey of St. Victor of Xanten in the 15th century. In the collections of Sir John Savile the Elder, Sir Henry Savile, and Sir John Savile the Younger. Part of the Savile collection sold by the London bookseller Joseph Lilly. Acquired by Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham. His son sold it to Henry Yates Thompson, who sold it on to Sotheby's who sold it to...

Keyword:

Treasure bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Wooden boards

Velvet bindings

Centerpiece and cornerpiece bindings

Parchment (Paper)

decorated initials

Bible. Matthew

Commentaries

Early works

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

New Jersey--Princeton

Germany--Fulda

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113159823506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University