[Six fragments of Beneventan minuscule from three separate manuscripts][Six fragments of Beneventan minuscule from three separate manuscripts]
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Current format, Manuscript or Typescript, , Available by request. Offered in 0 more formatsSix fragments of Beneventan minuscule removed from bindings and originating in three distinct manuscripts: a single fragment from a manuscript containing portions Psalms 61 and 62; a single fragment from a different manuscript containing a portion of Psalm 118; four fragments from a manuscript copy of St. Augustine, Tractatus in Ioannem.
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- Ms. fragments.
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- Script: Written in Beneventan minuscule, Monte Cassino type.
- Decoration: Fragment 5 with portions of a floriated initial in red, yellow, blue, and green.
- Binding: Each fragment affixed to a stub; bound in modern tan buckram.
- Origin: Copied in Southern Italy, second half of the 12th century.
- Provenance: All fragments removed from bindings. Offered as a group at Sotheby's, London, (21 June, 1994, lot 5) to Bernard Quaritch. Later in the collection of Martin Schøyen, his MS 1855/3, 1855/4, and 1855/5.
- Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., in May, 2023.
- Former and related shelfmarks: Fragment 1 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/4. Apparently from the same parent manuscript as Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, MS CL 216 (ii), a single leaf from a pocket-sized Bible written in single columns. Fragment 2 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/3. Fragments 3-6 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/5. Apparently from the same parent manuscript as Toronto, Virginia Brown Collection, MS. 2.
- Call number: MS q Med.294.
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- Purchase; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.; 20230519; 2023.31.2.
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- [Italy], [approximately 1150-1199]
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