The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 31151

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DS ID:

DS9970

Shelfmark:

mssHM 31151

Title:

Selections of works against heresy

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Kirkestede, Henry, approximately 1314-approximately 1378

Henry Kirkestede WIKIDATA

Place:

Bury St. Edmunds, England

Bury Saint Edmunds TGN

Date:

between 1125 and 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 174 : parchment ; 200 x 318 mm

Former Owner(s):

Bacon, Nicholas, Sir, 1509-1579

Nicholas Bacon WIKIDATA

Holt, John, Sir, 1642-1710

John Holt WIKIDATA

Beatty, A. Chester Sir, 1875-1968

Alfred Chester Beatty WIKIDATA

Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Selections of works by Augustine mainly on the topic of heresy; also includes a Pseudo-Augustine work "Hypomnesticon contra Pelagianos et Coelestianos" and Virgilius (or Vigilius) Thapsensis' Contra Felicianum arrianum. Written at Bury St. Edmunds in the second quarter of the twelfth century. (See E. Parker McLachlan, "The Scriptorium of Bury St. Edmunds in the Third and Fourth Decades of the...
Span folios: ff. 1-174v. Support: Parchment. Layout: i4 1-168 176(through f. 138) 18-198 206 218 224 ii2. Catchwords occasionally in lower right margin, cropped. 2 columns of 36 lines, ruled in lead, single vertical bounding lines, central rule between the columns; exterior prickings visible. Written by 4 scribes in good book hands: i, ff. 5-52v; ii, ff. 53-136; iii, ff. 139-157v; iv, ff...
Decoration: Major initials, 8- to 3-lines, of varying quality, in red, purple, green or blue occasionally with small leafy tendrils in the same color or with touches of another color; those after f. 139, with scribes iii and iv, of finer execution; up to f. 56, 1-line initials within the text in colors; ff. 56-97, 2- and 1-line initials in red only; thereafter in the ink of the text. Ink...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
The table of contents on the pastedown, the Bury pressmark "A.10" on the pastedown and on f. 5, and the note on the pastedown "In custodia.s. laugham [?]" are in the hand of the fourteenth century Bury armarius Henry of Kirkestede (see R. H. Rouse, "Bostonus Buriensis and the Author of the Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiae," Speculum 41 (1966) 471-99). The contents of the manuscript are itemized...

Keyword:

sketches

manuscripts (documents)

Pelagianism

Arianism

Manichaeism

Christian heresies

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862202

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51639/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens