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Super iv libros regum
Title
Super iv libros regum.
Created
Rhineland (Germany), circa 1160-1190.
Physical Description
137 leaves : parchment ; 270 x 178 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Marginal annotations in several hands. Annotation on 77v is partly in a runic alphabet.
Layout: single colums of 34 lines.
Script: pregothic script.
Decoration: initials in red. Several foliate initials in red and brown.
Binding: original tawed leather over thick wooden boards, blank pastedowns. Remains of contemporary title and shelfmark on upper board; spine lettered "Raban. sup. iv libros regum" in a later hand. Top edge lettered "Raban" in a contemporary? hand. Two later straps and one clasp. Chain hasp stain on lower board. Phillipps MS number on spine.
In Latin.
Provenance
Ex libris Abbey of Saint Mary at Steinfeld. Previously owned by Leander van Ess. Phillipps MS 306. Purchased from Stephen John Keynes on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2019.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, of this commentary on the four biblical Books of Kings by Rabanus Maurus. The work is more commonly known as Expositio in IV libros regum.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 09, 2019
References
Rabanus Maurus, Super iv libros regum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Rabanus Maurus, Super iv libros regum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 12th century.
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