Vassar College, Leaf 45

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30341

Shelfmark:

Leaf 45

Title:

Leaf of a martyrology

Martyrology

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1150-1175?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 474 x 362 (385 x 227) mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title from Kidd.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 45 lines; blind-ruled with prickings in outer margin.
Script: Written in late Caroline script.
Decoration: One 6-line initial in red, filled with 6-leaf flower or star motif washed in red with touches of blue.
Origin: Written in Italy probably during the third quarter of the 12th century.
Paginated in 17th(?)-century ink after folding horizontally: 19-[20] and 33-34, suggesting that there were three more folded sheets between them.
Apparently used as a wrapper or wallet in the mid-16th century: inscription in ink on page 19; anonymous bookseller(?): item number(?) '7814d' in pencil, sold at Sotheby's June 22,1999; purchased by Philip Pirages, bookseller of McMinnville, OR, included in Catalogue 47 ([2002]); Vassar College: accession number 'M2003-006.'

Keyword:

Caroline minuscule

Manuscripts

Martyrologies

Christian martyrs

Early works

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Twelfth century

Paul, the Apostle, Saint

Death and burial of a person

Peter, the Apostle, Saint

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991019366155807396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College