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Homilia Bede in fest Annunciationis
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The Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe, diocese of Geneva, suppressed in 1792; acquired in or after 1796 by Giacinto della Torre, P.S.A. (1747-1814), canon and later archbishop of Turin 1805-14, who gave it to the biblioteca del Semainario metropolitano, Turin, the library was dispersed c. 1954.
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the present two leaves were bought by George A. Poole in 1954 from C.A. Stonehill; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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s. IX/X; 890-910
9. century
10. century
890Gregorian
910Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Other decoration, ff. 1-2: Text has been marked up later with the punctus flexuspunctuation, characteristics of Cistercian use. It also has stress marks added above some vowels, consistent with public reading.
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Number of scribes, ff. 1-2: One primary, some later textual corrections and additions.
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Script, ff. 1-2: Caroline minuscule, nineteenth-century hand (?)*.
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Layout, ff. 1-2: 2 columns, 29 lines, each column 241 mm by 81 mm, with 17 mm between columns.
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Manuscript note: By the fifteenth century the manuscript had apparently lost a leaf or two at the beginning, and the stained and darkened f. 1r here was the first to survive. Around 1796 given to the seminary library in Turin, where it was kept as ms 15, 72 leaves, subsequently disbound (Leclercq 1951, p. 76). 61 leaves are in Beinecke Library, as Marston MS 151, beginning at the point where...
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Bibliography: Halporn 1961, pp. 224-27; Faye and Bond 1962, p. 180; Leclercq 1964, p. 217; Grégoire 1966, p. 72; Ferrari and Rouse 1991, p. 93; Bondeelle-Souchier 1991, p. 133; Shailor 1992, p. 291; Bischoff 1998, p. 137, no. 643; Baroffio 1999, p. 25.
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ff. 1-2: Ferrari and Rouse (1991, p. 93) compare the script with Monza, Biblioteca capitolare c. 5/65, written in Monza.
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ff. 1-2: Latin.
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2 leaves, consecutive: Extracts from Bede's Homiliae 1:3 (Gregoire 1966, p. 78, no. 11; Hurst 1960, pp. 14-15, lines 9-136). The volume from which these leaves come was the oldest known to Gregoire, although he did not search comprehensively. A late medieval note across the lower margin gives the by-then missing opening of the homily, linked by a little tie-mark to the top of the page. Rubric...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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