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Catenae
Creator
Title
Catenae.
Created
England, [between 1150 and 1200]
Physical Description
ff. ii + i + i + 96 + i : parchment ; 350 x 239 (268 x 181) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written in a neat gothic bookhand by three scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-2v; 2) 3r-22v, 51r-71v; 3) ff. 22v-50v, 72r-96v.
Large elegant initial, 26-line, in red penwork, on f. 72r; smaller similar initial, 16-line, in green with red highlights, also on f. 72r; simple decorative letters, 14- and 6-line, green and red respectively, on f. 51r. Quotations from Bible and marginal notes referring to authors cited, in red. Modern illuminated title page inserted as f. iii: "Catena Commentariorum S. S. Patrum, in Epistolis ad Romanos et Corinthios. M. S. Saeculi XIV".
Binding: Nineteenth century. Russia leather, blind-tooled, over wooden boards; 4 metal bosses on each cover; leather thong.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased by Henry Fletcher from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles; his gift to Yale in 1950.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on Romans, begins imperfectly at 1. 24; missing Romans 9.17-21 (and portions of 9.16, 22). 2) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on 1 Corinthians; missing 7.39-15.44. 3) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on 2 Corinthians; ends abruptly at 12.20.
Publications
De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1670, no. 1; Faye and Bond, p. 36, no. 154.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 154.
Robert of Bridlington, Catenae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Robert of Bridlington, Catenae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 12th century.
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