(Q43857)
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Fragment from Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica
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Historia scholastica
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Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Starr, Nathan Comfort, 1896-1981
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Dickinson, Mary W. T
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Bible--History of Biblical events
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between 1200 and 1215
13. century
1200Gregorian
1215Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 10 : parchment ; 238 x 332 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Ten leaves from Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, written in the opening years of the thirteenth century. Written in England or possibly France.
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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.
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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.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
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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...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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