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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9951

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25780

Title:

Fragment from Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica

Historia scholastica

Author:

Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century

Petrus Comestor WIKIDATA

Place:

England?

England TGN

Date:

between 1200 and 1215

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 10 : parchment ; 238 x 332 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Starr, Nathan Comfort, 1896-1981

Nathan Comfort Starr WIKIDATA

Dickinson, Mary W. T

Mary W. T. Dickinson WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Ten leaves from Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, written in the opening years of the thirteenth century. Written in England or possibly France.
Span folios: ff. 1-10v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Two quires, probably originally sexterni; the first lacks its inner bifolium, remain; possibly two quires missing. 2 columns of 48 lines, some columns divided into 2 narrower columns (e.g. on ff. 5, 10v), ruled in lead, single bounding lines. Written by one person in a spiky littera textualis.
Decoration: Spaces reserved for 2-line initials. Notes to rubricator in the lower margin. Occasional corrections and index notes in a contemporary hand. Running headlines added.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
Probably originates in a French collection, for the 2 quires are wrapped in a paper bifolium inscribed on the back leaf in a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century hand, "Chevaux D'artillerie De Campagne." Folio i bears the number "510" and an 18th c. contents note, "fragmentum epistolarum Sancti hyeronimi ad Sanctos Augustinum et Alipium Episcopos. MS XII s.," surmounted by a cross...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Bible

History of Biblical events

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862183

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens