Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc

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Title: Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc
Creator: Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Contributor: Shepey, John.
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1425]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini. With Johannes Shepey, Sermones
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2) ff. 10v-30r; Scribe 3) ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4) f. 75r to the top of 76r (perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar).
Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new section of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Rebacked.
Provenance: Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9520). Given in 1926 by Leonard Bacon and Susan Bacon Keith in memory of their father Nathaniel Terry Bacon.
Extent: ff. ii + 107 + ii : 176 x 122 (122 x 80) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th 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.
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Subject (Topic): Epigrams, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Sermons
Theology, Doctrinal
Subjects: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Epigrams, Latin > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Sermons
Theology, Doctrinal > Early works to 1800
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.