<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Vitae patrum</dc:title><dc:date>[between 1175 and 1200]</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives</dc:description><dc:description>In Latin.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica.</dc:description><dc:description>Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration.</dc:description><dc:description>Mutilated.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>