De inventione linguarum

Accession number: 
MS M.832
Title: 
De inventione linguarum
Created: 
Near Krems, Lower Austria, mid 12th century.
Binding: 
Previously in 19th-century marbled tan paper boards; rebound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in tan oasis niger tooled with entwined medallions in a repeating pattern of centaur archers pursuing a stag.
Description: 
10 leaves (1 column, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 286 x 203 mm
Provenance: 
Written and illustrated in the Benedictine monastery of Göttweig in Austria, manuscript no. 39 (Cat. 101) in the monastery; H.P. Kraus; purchased from H.P. Kraus with the assistance of the Fellows in 1950.
Notes: 

Ms. bestiary; written and illustrated in Lower Austria in the Benedictine monastery of Göttweig, mid 12th century.
Texts: 1) Rabanus Maurus, De inventione linguarum (excerpts, fol. 1-1v); 2) Pseudo-Joannes Chrysostomus, De naturis bestiarum (fol. 2-10v).
Decoration: 32 colored drawings.

Script: 
minuscule
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
Classification: