[Aurora].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Peter Riga, approximately 1140-1209.

Contributor:

Aegidius of Paris.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible--Paraphrases.

Bible.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry.

History of Biblical events.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Paraphrases.

Poetry.

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Commentaries.

Physical Description:

154 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 248 x 150 (202 x 59) mm bound to 264 x 168 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [1250-1300]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Verse paraphrase of the Bible: Old Testament (excluding Psalms, prophets and some other books) (f. 1-109v); New Testament (Gospels and Acts, excluding Epistles and Revelation) (f. 109v-149v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Foliation: Parchment, 154; [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 60 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.

Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with marginal commentary in a second hand.

Decoration: Red and blue used for initials; rubricated headings throughout; diagram or chart of the deadly sins (f. 50r); faint sketch of the Virgin[?] (f. 125).

Binding: Modern half leather over wooden boards with old guards (2 vellum incunable leaves from a canonical text with commentary, probably printed by Peter Schöffer of Mainz).

Origin: Written in France, mid-13th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Incipit: Scire cupis lector quis codicis istius autor, Audi quid breviter dicat ad ista liber: Petrus et Aegidius me conscripsere...[Aegidius' preface from his second redaction, before 1208].

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 25 (Ms. Latin 112).

Beichner, Paul, ed. Aurora : Petri Rigae Biblia versificata: a verse commentary on the Bible (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 747

OCLC:

155985534