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Vitae patrum
Title
Vitae patrum.
Created
Spain (Toledo), [between 1175 and 1200]
Physical Description
ff. i + 106 + i : parchment ; 515 x 365 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica.
Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration.
Mutilated.
Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund in 1981.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives.
Publications
D.L. Creasy, B.A. Shailor, "Beinecke Library, Yale University: An Unpublished Vitae sanctorum", in Classical Texts and Their Tradition. Studies in Honor of C.R. Trahman, edd. D.F. Bright, E.S. Ramage (Chico, CA, 1984), pp. 13-24. Shailor, The Medieval Book, 73.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 15, 2010
References
Vitae Patrum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Vitae Patrum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Spain - 12th century.
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