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.
Scribe: executed by at least 20 different scribes.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
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