Postillae in Testamentum Vetus
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Description
- Title
- Postillae in Testamentum Vetus
- Creator
- Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349
- Contributor
- Nicholas,--of Lyra,--ca. 1270-1349
- Published / Created
- [between 1325 and 1350]
- Publication Place
- Northern France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and I-IV Kings.
- Description
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19 pen-and-ink drawings with washes in red, green, blue and pale yellow, some inserted into the text column, others up to half-page size dealing with the Tabernacle in the Desert and the Temple of Solomon: the drawings serve to clarify the written text by depicting differences in interpretations between Jewish and Catholic exegesis; contrasting drawings are usually juxtaposed and labelled with the respective source for each.
Binding: Modern restoration? Limp vellum case with earlier title (mostly illegible) running lengthwise on spine and later title added at top of spine: "Fr. Nicolai de Lyra ord. min. Commentaria in Libro historico Sacrae Scripturae".
ff. 43-44 loose.
Many fine flourished initials, red and blue divided, 9- to 3-line, with penwork designs in red, blue and/or purple; somewhat smaller less ambitious initials alternate red and blue with designs in the opposite color. The minor decoration appears inconsistently, with running headlines, rubrics, paragraph marks and underlining of Biblical texts, in various colors or totally absent.
Purchased in 1958 from Emile Rossignol, Paris, by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand.
Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand. - Extent
- ff. i + 235 : parchment ; 330 x 240 (258 x 176) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 215
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Floor plans
Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Manuscripts - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Nicholas,--of Lyra,--ca. 1270-1349
- Subject (Topic)
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Bible.--O.T.--Historical Books
Bible.--O.T.--Pentateuch
Bible--Commentaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Scholasticism
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae in Testamentum Vetus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 215.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9813623
- Object ID (OID)
- 2030802
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars215.htm
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