Accession number
MS M.764-765
Object title
Moralia in Job (MS M.764, M.765).
Display Date
ca. 1000.
Created
Würzburg, Germany, ca. 1000.
Binding
In two volumes, M.764 (108 leaves) and M.765 (150 leaves); bound in 20th-century half-pigskin, blind tooled, with metal clasps.
Description
2 v. (108, 150 leaves) (2 columns, 30-32 lines), bound : vellum, ill.
Provenance
Executed at and for Abtei Amorbach and there until at least the 15th century (inscription on the upper margin of fol. 1v: Codex Sce Marie V in Amorbach in a 15th-century hand); Prince of Leiningen (1851); Thomas Bateman; his sale (London, Sotheby's, May 25, 1893, lot 883) to Quaritch (cat. 211, 1902, lot 5; cat. 290, June 1910, lot 357); Sotheby's sale (London, Nov. 20, 1912, lot 212) to Milner; Karl W. Hiersemann (catalogue, n.s., no. 1, Leipzig, Nov. 1926); purchased from Hiersemann in June 1930).
Notes
Ms. Biblical commentary; written and decorated in Würzburg, Germany, in Abtei Amorbach (the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary the Virgin at Amorbach), ca. 1000.
Text: Moralia in Job; M.764 is 200 x 210 mm. and consists of books 1-7; M.765 is 290 x 220 mm. and consists of books 23-30 and, on fol. 149 and 150, a fragment of St. Jerome's letters.
Musical notation: antiphons with neumes on fol. 1 of M.764.
Text: Moralia in Job; M.764 is 200 x 210 mm. and consists of books 1-7; M.765 is 290 x 220 mm. and consists of books 23-30 and, on fol. 149 and 150, a fragment of St. Jerome's letters.
Musical notation: antiphons with neumes on fol. 1 of M.764.
Script
Caroline miniscule
Language
German
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