Confessiones

Description

Title: Confessiones
Creator: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Published / Created: [between 1125 and 1150]
Publication Place: Northern France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thick and furry, numerous imperfections, some repaired) of Augustine, Confessiones
Description: In Latin.
Ten illuminated initials of good quality, 19- to 6-line, drawn in brown ink against medium blue, reddish orange and/or ochre grounds. The initials are constructed of scrolling vines with stylized foliage and/or winged dragons, with vines issuing from their mouths, accentuated or shaded in red. Some initials inhabited by winged dragons, f. 10v with grotesque (outlined by prickings), f. 25r with a nude male figure. Headings in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled spine and title: "Confescion/ Santti/ Augustini" and "Manuscrit/ du 12^e siecle".
Provenance: Purchased from Lucien Scheler of Paris in 1957 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + i + i + 76 + i : 302 x 210 (226 x 150) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Marston MS 157
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic): Autobiography
Church history
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Autobiography
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Augustine, Confessiones. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.