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Margarita sacrae scripturae (fragment)
Creator
Title
Margarita sacrae scripturae (fragment)
Created
Germany?, approximately 1500-1550.
Physical Description
1 volume (i + 12 + i) : paper ; 200 mm x 150 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Layout: single columns of varying lengths.
Script: German bookhand.
Decoration: rubricated. Unflourished initials in red.
Binding: modern boards. Blank paper label on front cover. Circular paper sticker, annotated "580" in upper right hand corner of front cover.
Partially effaced library stamp in the lower right corner of f1r.
Laid in: copy of typed description of manuscript, attributing the work to a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Messlach near Trier.
Laid in: three sheets containing modern annotations in pencil concerning the author and the location of copies ot the work.
Bookseller description available.
Title from bookseller description.
In Latin.
Provenance
From the library of James Stevens-Cox (number 35). Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2013.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Guido VIncentinus (died 1332) was a member of the Dominican order who was Prior of the Convent of Santa Corona in Vicenza before serving as Bishop of Ferrara from 1304 until his death in 1332. His Margarita Sacrae Scripturae has survived in several copies.
Summary
Manuscript on paper, in a single scribal hand, containing the first part of Margarita sacrae scripturae, a poem in Latin hexameters summarizing the books of the Bible. This fragmant contains the epitomes from Genesis through Isaiah; there is no chapter for Psalms. Preceded by a prose preface, probably the work of a later author, introducing the poem as a "fragmentum veteris."
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2022
References
Guido Vincentinus, Margarita Sacrae Scripturae (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Guido Vincentinus, Margarita Sacrae Scripturae (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Germany - 16th century.
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