Confessiones

Description

Title: Confessiones
Creator: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Published / Created: [between 1125 and 1150]
Publication Place: Northern France,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thick and furry, numerous imperfections, some repaired) of Augustine, Confessiones.
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled spine and title: "Confescion/ Santti/ Augustini" and "Manuscrit/ du 12^e siecle".
Ten illuminated initials of good quality, 19- to 6-line, drawn in brown ink against medium blue, reddish orange and/or ochre grounds. The initials are constructed of scrolling vines with stylized foliage and/or winged dragons, with vines issuing from their mouths, accentuated or shaded in red. Some initials inhabited by winged dragons, f. 10v with grotesque (outlined by prickings), f. 25r with a nude male figure. Headings in red.
Extent: ff. i + i + i + 76 + i : parchment ; 302 x 210 (226 x 150) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Autobiography
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Augustine, Confessiones. 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 157.

Orbis Record: 9811169
Object ID (OID): 10269768
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars157.htm