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The abbey of Saint Maximin in Treir (founded c. 500, supressed 1802); Fritz Rörig (1882-1952), of Berlin, bought in Keil (where he taught 1923-35); bought from his widow in 1953 by H.P. Kraus and sold by him in January 1954 to George A. Poole; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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s. IX(2/4); 825-850
9. century
825Gregorian
850Gregorian
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s. IX(2/4); 825-850
9. century
825Gregorian
850Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Other decoration, Fragment A r-v: On f. A verso (Bible , NT), a very large 9-line initial "H", 62 mm by 73 mm, drawn in red, with leafy extensions and leafy and geometric infilling in red, yellow, black and grey-brown.
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Script, Fragment A r-v: Caroline minuscule, very small hand; Hierarchy of Scripts: Headings and openings in Uncials (sometimes in red); explicits in rustic capitals; major headings in square display capitals.
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Layout, Fragment A r-v: Vertical piece, ruled in blind, part of 2 columns, 49 lines here (of 52), each column here 350 mm. (of about 362) by 120 mm. with 29mm. between columns. Capitulas in separately-ruled column.
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Number of scribes, Fragment B r-v: One primary; second is Trier libraian's hand in title of De origine rerumand monastery ownership inscription.
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Script, Fragment B r-v: Caroline minuscule, very small; Hierarchy of Scripts: Headings and openings in Uncials (sometimes in red); explicits in rustic capitals; major headings in square display capitals.
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Layout, Fragment B r-v: Horizontal piece, part of 2 columns, 39 lines here, each column here 274 mm by 120 mm.
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Manuscript note: Pieces from a characteristic Tours bible. It is not known when the bible reached St. Maximin. One suggestion is that it was orginally a companion volume to the Prüm Gospels (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Theol. lat. 2˚ 733) possibly owned by Lothaire I, emperor of the West Franks 840-55. Used in binding of a copy of the De origine rerumof...
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Bibliography: For the Library catalogue of St. Maximin see Becker 1885, p. 178; for the Gutenberg Bible, White 2002, p.23.; for the Yale mss cf. Nolden 2002, pp. 222-23, pls. 125-26 and 129-30, Elder 2005, and Brown 2006, pp. 281-2, no 43. Faye and Bond 1962, p. 180; Miner 1965, pp. 20-23, no. 7; Ullman 1962, passim Mütherich 1972, pp. 44 and 47, and fig. 7 on p. 52; von Euw and Plotzek 1979...
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Fragment A r-v: Latin.
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Fragment B r-v: Has faint ofsetts from other words of text on both sides, including I Samuel 12:24 and Exekiel 43:10.
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Fragment B r-v: Latin.
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Fragment A r: Rubric is in red, late fifteenth-century hand.
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Fragment A v: Luke 23:40 to the end of Luke; Preface to John, "Hic est iohannes (Stegm?ller no. 624), and part of capitual to John, I-XXX.
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Fragment B r-v: Text from John 13:2 to 13:29, John 14:1 to 14:27, 15:6 to 16:4, and 16:15 to 17:6; Ownership inscription: Codex monasterii sci. Maximini Archiepi. prope Treverion recto.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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