Death of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Information About This Item
Title
Death of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Date
1400 - 1499
Description
Incipit: //hoc quod vos queritis a nobis quia non est aliquis ex nobis qui sciat qua de causa [cancellation: veam?] veniamus Quia hodie fui in antiochia
Explicit: et per vim capere corpus gloriose virginis marie Et penitus ipsum volebant comburere. Et [cancellation: vynd] vindictam statim ceperunt//
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: Ba^tarde
Condition: Essentially no text is missing between recto and verso, so this represents the main shape of the leaf.
Notes: See Fragmenta Manuscripta 191 for rubric of the text. For printed version, see C. Tischendorft, Apocalypses apocryphae Mosis, Esedrae, Pauli, Iohannis, item Mariae Dormitio(Leipzig 1866) pp. 116-118, footnotes for text C (here somewhat abbreviated).
Relation
M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 192
Source
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta192_45
Format
Paper - 141 x 96 mm - 18 long lines, no ruling or bounding lines visible
Language
Latin
Type
manuscript fragment
Coverage
France