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Manuscript leaf from Aurora, 1200s.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 5
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Peter Riga, approximately 1140-1209.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Exodus--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.
- Bible.
- Bible--Paraphrases.
- Bible. Exodus.
- Genre:
- Paraphrases.
- fragments (object portions)
- commentaries
- poems
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Commentaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by William Salloch (Ossining, N.Y.), 1979.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 257 x 181 mm
- Contained In:
- Manuscript Fragment Collection. Folder 5
- Other Title:
- Aurora.
- Place of Publication:
- 1200s.
- Language Note:
- In Latin.
- Summary:
- Manuscript leaf from the Exodus section of Peter Riga's Aurora (verses 90-168 in the Beichner edition), a paraphrase of the Bible in verse. The manuscript was ruled for 40 lines and written in a Gothic hand. Pricking and ruling visible. Blue initials with minimal red flourishes. Trimmed corners and creases due to use of the leaf for the binding of another volume.
- OCLC:
- 155928823
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