(Q43536)
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Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica and Peter of Poitiers' Historia actuum apostolorum
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Historia scholastica
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Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Bible--History of Biblical events
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between 1250 and 1299
13. century
1250Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i + 278 + i : parchment ; 126 x 174 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica and Peter, of Poitiers' Historia actuum apostolorum written in England in the second half of the thirteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-278v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-1112 128(-5, 6, 7; through f. 137) 13-1712(through f. 197) 186 19-2412 254(-4). Catchword on f. 137v, in the inner corner, cropped. 2 columns of 40 lines, some columns divided into 2 narrower columns (e.g. on ff. 98v, 100); ruled in lead; double bounding lines. Written in an English book hand.
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Decoration: Opening initial, 6-line, parted red and blue with filigree infilling around 4 blue rosettes, with red and blue cascade and flourishing to frame the inner and upper margins. Blue initials, 2-line, with red and blue cascade or red flourishing. Paragraph marks alternating in red and blue. Running headlines in red and blue.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 2/11/2012.
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On f. i verso, written in pale red ink in a mid-sixteenth or seventeenth century legal anglicana script, probably in explanation of the name "Radulphus" on f. 278v: "This booke appears to have been examined by Radulph de Baldock, Deane of Saint Paule 1297." Ralph de Baldock, bishop of London, 1306-13, and chancellor of England, 1307, owned a number of books: Emden, BRUO, 2147-49 prints the...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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