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Commentary on Leviticus libri VII (MS M.768).

Accession number
MS M.768
Object title
Commentary on Leviticus libri VII (MS M.768).
Display Date
between 800 and 825.
Created
Cologne, Germany, between 800 and 825.
Binding
Perhaps 14th-century white calf over oak boards.
Description
316 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum ; 300 x 240 mm
Provenance
Owned at least by the 12th- 13th century by the Chapter library of Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Beauvais, France (notation Sci petri beauacensis) on fol. 2 and 313v; shelfmark CLXXVI; no. 54 in the Beauvais 15th-century catalogue, no. 68 in the 1664 catalogue; no. 70 in the 1750 catalogue); Comte of Troussures near Beauvais; his sale (Paris, July 9, 1909, no. 5 and plate) to Jacques Rosenthal; purchased from Rosenthal in 1931.
Notes
Ms. Biblical commentary; written in Cologne, Germany, probably in the first quarter of the 9th century; this attribution made by Veronika von Büren, Paris, CNR.
Scribe: executed by at least 20 different scribes.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification