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Historia calamitatum and epistolae
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Title
Historia calamitatum and epistolae.
Created
France, [circa 1350]
Physical Description
74 l. : parchment ; 230 c 150 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: compressed gothic book script.
Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques.
Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7).
Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
In Latin.
Provenance
From the collections of Henri LeClerc and Robert de Billy. Ex libris Martin Schøyen (MS 2085). Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2015.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2017
References
Peter Abelard, Historia calamitatum and Epistolae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Peter Abelard, Historia calamitatum and Epistolae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 14th century.
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