Commentary on Leviticus libri VII

Accession number: 
MS M.768
Title: 
Commentary on Leviticus libri VII
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: