Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, Fragment: Headings in red, a few late medieval scribbles; short summaries of the chapters are written in minuscule, red ink. Script, Fragment: Caroline minuscule. Layout, Fragment: Ruled in blind, 19 long lines here (probably of 35 or more), written-space here 142 mm (probably of upwards of 262 mm.) by 193 mm, prickings in both margins.
Former Owner(s):
C. L. Ricketts (bought in 1925 from Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt), and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Manuscript note: Upper edge is creased and partly cut where it has been used to wrap around one cover of an octavo binding. Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 641 (as Augustine, De Trinitate; Bischoff 1998, p.137, no. 646. Fragment: Caroline minuscule hand has slightly backward sloping "a" in two forms (both open and closed). Another leaf from the same manuscript is MS 78 in the Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, bought from Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages III, cat 1088, p,19, no 10. (Gugel 1991 and Brozinski and Heyne 1994). Fragment: Latin. One fragment: Contains Eugippius, book II, caps. ccxxxiv-ccxxv (the latter numbered here as 'CCXVIIII'). with extracts from Augustine's De Trinitate composed c.400-416, book I, caps vi-vii, as acknolwedged in the heading in red on the verso. Textually related to an exemplar from St-Amand in Flanders, which also produced Munich, Staatsbibliotek, Clm. 6247.
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