Postillae in Testamentum Vetus
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Description
- Title
- Postillae in Testamentum Vetus
- Creator
- Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 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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In Latin.
Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand.
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.
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.
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". - Provenance
- Purchased in 1958 from Emile Rossignol, Paris, by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. i + 235 : 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
- Related Resource Online
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholasticism - Subjects
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Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349
Bible > Commentaries
Bible. O.T. Historical Books
Bible. O.T. Pentateuch
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholasticism
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae in Testamentum Vetus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9813623
- Object ID (OID)
- 2030802
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