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Aurora Oversize Ms. Codex 747
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

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).

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 154 leaves : 248 x 150 (202 x 59) mm. bound to 264 x 168 mm; 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).

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (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].

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

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Keywords
13th century
Literature -- Poetry
Christian
France
History
Biblical
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

France

Date

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

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).

Language

Latin

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Place of Origin

France

Date

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

Language

Latin

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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).

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].

Script note

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

Decoration Note

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).

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
13th century
Literature -- Poetry
Christian
France
History
Biblical
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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