Legendary (fragment).

Description

Title: Legendary (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 800 and 850]
Publication Place: Bavaria
Abstract: Fragment of a legendary of Saints Nicostratus, Claudius, Symphorian, Castorius and Simpliius, stonemasons martyred by Diocletian. The passage mentions the quarrying of porphyry columns for the temple of Diocletian
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in a proto-Carloingian minuscule. The scribe has been identified (by Bernard Bischoff) as Cundpato, monk of the Benedictine monastery of Freising.
Leaf has several small marks and holes indicating that it was used as part of a later bookbinding.
Provenance: Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 115). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011.
Extent: 1l. : 206 mm. x 163 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 9th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cundpato.
Freisinger Domkloster.
Subject (Topic): Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Cundpato
Freisinger Domkloster
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 9th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Legendary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.