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Legenda aurea (fragment)
Title
Legenda aurea (fragment).
Created
[England or France], [between 1300 and 1399].
Physical Description
1 leaf : parchment ; 301 mm x 215 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: written in a heavily abbreviated and informal Gothic bookhand.
Decoration: alternating paraphs in red and blue. First letter after each paraph touched in red. Remnants of a 3-4 line initial in red with blue penwork can be seen in the margin where the previous leaf was excised from the bifolium
Layout: in 2 columns of 34 lines each.
Damage: the leaf has been heavily damaged and probably used as a pastedown; remnants of glue and paper can be observed on the verso. Text on the recto is undamaged, though there is some loss on the verso.
In Latin.
Provenance
Purchased from Mackus Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2016.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Jacob de Voragine's Golden Legend, containing selections from chapter 73.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2018
References
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 14th century.
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