Historia calamitatum and epistolae

Description

Title: Historia calamitatum and epistolae
Creator: Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
Contributor: Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Published / Created: [circa 1350]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
Description: In Latin.
Script: compressed gothic book script.
Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques.
Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7).
Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
Provenance: From the collections of Henri LeClerc and Robert de Billy. Ex libris Martin Schøyen (MS 2085). Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2015.
Extent: 74 l. : 230 c 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Subject (Topic): Autobiography
Women authors
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Love-letters
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164
Autobiography > Early works to 1800
Autobiography > Women authors
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Latin letters, Medieval and modern > Early works to 1800
Love-letters > Early works to 1800
Love-letters > Women authors
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Schøyen, Martin > Bookplate

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Citation: Peter Abelard, Historia calamitatum and Epistolae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.