Accession number
MS G.33
Object title
De Trinitate miscellany (MS G.33).
Display Date
early 9th century
Created
Northern France, early 9th century
Binding
Full dark green morocco by Macdonald.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
140 leaves (2 columns, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 285 x 215 mm
Provenance
Purchased in May 1955 from Arthur Rau, Paris, for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in northern France, early 9th century.
Collection of letters, tracts, etc. by Fulgentius, Athanasius, Vigilius Tapensis, Augustine, and others in defense of the faith, and in particular the dogma of the Trinity.
Texts: anathema against those who plunder Church goods (fol. 1); Epistola Ferrandi Deaconi ad Fulgentium de quinque questionibus (fol. 1v); Liber Fulgentii de quinque questionibus (fol. 2v-35v); Epistola Victoris ad Fulgentium (fol. 36); Vigilius Tapensis, Liber de Trinitate (beginning of book V) (fol. 37); Athanasius, Expositio fidei (fol. 53); Athanasius, Liber de Trinitate et Spiritu Sancto (fol. 54); 74v: Vigilius Tapensis, Altercatio contra Arianos (fol. 74); Epistola Potami ad Athanasium ab Arianos (fol. 128); Epsitola Athanasii ad Luciferum (fol. 129); unidentified text (fol. 134-139); Sermo beati Augustini in elevatione Iohannis (fol. 139v).
Decoration: 4 initials with interlace, leaf, and fish decoration.
Collection of letters, tracts, etc. by Fulgentius, Athanasius, Vigilius Tapensis, Augustine, and others in defense of the faith, and in particular the dogma of the Trinity.
Texts: anathema against those who plunder Church goods (fol. 1); Epistola Ferrandi Deaconi ad Fulgentium de quinque questionibus (fol. 1v); Liber Fulgentii de quinque questionibus (fol. 2v-35v); Epistola Victoris ad Fulgentium (fol. 36); Vigilius Tapensis, Liber de Trinitate (beginning of book V) (fol. 37); Athanasius, Expositio fidei (fol. 53); Athanasius, Liber de Trinitate et Spiritu Sancto (fol. 54); 74v: Vigilius Tapensis, Altercatio contra Arianos (fol. 74); Epistola Potami ad Athanasium ab Arianos (fol. 128); Epsitola Athanasii ad Luciferum (fol. 129); unidentified text (fol. 134-139); Sermo beati Augustini in elevatione Iohannis (fol. 139v).
Decoration: 4 initials with interlace, leaf, and fish decoration.
Script
Caroline minuscule with uncial incipits, explicits, and legends
Language
Latin
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