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De fide catholica ex veteri et novo testamento

Information About This Item

Creator

Isidore of Seville

Title

De fide catholica ex veteri et novo testamento

Date

1100-1125

Description

Contents: Contains parts of Book I, chapters 16, 17 and the very beginning of 18.
Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Script: Transitional script
Condition: Much cut from top and bottom; badly stained on verso; some retouching of letters.
Notes: Tall "a" and open "g" holdover from Saxon. Cf Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography Plate 14. Column or small page intact, l & r

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 006

Source

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta006_45

Format

Parchment - 70 x 107 mm - Single column with 15 lines visible; bounding line visible 5mm to left; ruling on verso (flesh); no pricking.

Language

Latin

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

England