Quodlibetical text (fragment).

Description

Title: Quodlibetical text (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1250 and 1299].
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a quodlibetical text, possibly associated with a student of Henry of Ghent
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in a small, highly abbreviated gothic script (littera textualis).
Decoration: 2-line initials alternate red and blue, occasionally with red penwork; 1-line initials are in brown capitals, frequently preceded by a paragraph mark which alternates red and blue; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and the virgule; there are marginal corrections written in a contemporary cursive hand as well as numerous corrections within the main body of the text.
Provenance: The bifolium was used as a pastedown in another volume.
Extent: ff. 1-2 : 285 x 228 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th 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): Henry, of Ghent, 1217?-1293.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholasticism
Subjects: Henry, of Ghent, 1217?-1293
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholasticism > 13th century
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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