Accession number:
MS M.744
Title:
Expositio super Genesis
Created:
Cîteaux, France, 12th century.
Binding:
Early 19th-century calf over boards.
Description:
107 leaves (2 columns, 29-30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 340 x 250 mm
Provenance:
Owned in the 12th century by the Abbaye de Cîteaux; J.B. Marduel, vicar of Saint-Nizier at Lyon; Sotheby's sale (the property of a gentleman; London, Feb. 23, 1921, lot 408) to Quaritch; purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library, perhaps in 1928.
Notes:
Ms. Biblical commentary; written and decorated at the Abbaye de Cîteaux, France, 12th century.
Decoration: 2 large penwork initials; French Romanesque style.
Script:
cursive scripts
Language:
Latin
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