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Catena on Job
Title
Catena on Job.
Created
Italy (?), [between 1550 and 1600]
Physical Description
ff. ii + 220 + ii : paper ; 300 x 211 (210 x 122) mm.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3467, 3486, 3488, 3489 and 3507; unidentified crossbow.
Script: Written by a single scribe who is the same as Scribe 2 in Beinecke MS 289, as Scribe 3 in MS 290, and as Scribe 1 in MS 490.
Floral headpiece, in red, on f. 9r; elaborate initials, 10- to 2-line, in red, throughout text, many with accompanying floral motifs. Headings and most marginalia in red.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges spattered red and blue/green. Rigid vellum case. According to J. L. Sharpe this manuscript was bound at the Jesuit College of Clermont, Paris.
In Greek.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 14041). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper (polished).
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 46, no. 257. Ziskind Catalogue, p. 51.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 257.
Nicetas of Heraclea, Catena on Job. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Nicetas of Heraclea, Catena on Job. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 16th century.
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