Elucidarium, etc

Description

Title: Elucidarium, etc
Creator: Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Published / Created: [between 1100 and 1150]
Publication Place: Southern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thick, end pieces; ff. 7v-8v palimpsest) of 1) Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium. 2) Honorius Augustodunensis, Inevitabile, beginning of the first version. 3) Unidentified moral sentences
Description: In Latin.
Script: Folios 1r-7r written in late caroline minuscule (portions of text retraced); the underscript of the palimpsest on ff. 7v-8v was also written in caroline minuscule. Folios 7v-72v written in inelegant Beneventan script.
Plain red initials, f. 1r-v; modest black initials filled with red, ff. 24v, 48r, 68v, 71v. Majuscules touched with red throughout.
Upper edge of book block damaged, with some loss of text.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. Rigid vellum case with traces of title (upside down) on spine. Edges daubed red and green.
Provenance: Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 24783). Purchased from W. H. Robinson Ltd. of London in 1956 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 72 + i : 160 x 105 (132 x 79) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Marston MS 112
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156.
Subject (Topic): Christian education
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Christian education
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.