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De continentia (MS M.881).

Accession number
MS M.881
Object title
De continentia (MS M.881).
Display Date
ca. 1100-1110.
Created
Italy, near Mantua, ca. 1100-1110.
Binding
18th-century light brown morocco, covers blind-tooled with center panels; metal bosses on upper cover at center and each corner of the tooled-panel, and in groups of three at hinges and straps, clasps missing. Stamped in gold on spine: S. Paulini & Augustini/Epistolae 2o Accadunt Au/gustini Libri 4: Vide ini/cem initio: The S. Benedetto binding of the 18th century is characteristic and unmistakable, all manuscripts and incunabula were re-bound in imitation of the old monastic bindings. The new binding has preserved most of the 12th-century quire tackets that were present in the manuscript.
Credit line
Purchase; Laurence Witten; 1956.
Description
132 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 120 x 80 mm.
Provenance
San Benedetto di Polirone (at center flyleaf the shelfmark MS n 78); the number 108 written in brown ink at bottom of fol. 132v in 18th-century script; Victor Ebrand or Ebrigord (name of 19th-century owner on fol. 133v visible under UV light); purchased from Laurence Witten in 1956.
Notes
Ms. patristic texts; written in Italy at the Benedictine Monastery of S. Benedetto di Polirone, at San Benedetto Po near Mantua, ca. 1100-1110.
Texts: 1) St. Paulinus of Nola, Epistola ad S. Augustinum (fols. 1-4); 2) St. Augustine of Hippo, Epistola ad S. Paulinum (fols. 4-8v; Liber de cura pro mortuis gerenda (fols. 8v-39); Liber I de Conjugiis adulterinis (fols. 39v-72v); Liber II de conjugiis adulterinis (fols. 72v-96); Liber de continentia (fols. 96-132v).
Script
minusucle
Language
Latin
Century
Classification