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[Lectionary of prophets]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Latin
Published/Created
[France] : [Luxeuil or affiliated house], [between 700 and 725]
Description
1 leaf : parchment ; 147 x 212 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Garrett MS. 172
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Bible Prophets
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Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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Bookseller
Goldschmidt, E. Ph. (Ernst Philip)
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Scribe
Monastère de Luxeuil (Luxeuil-les-Bains, France)
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Former owner
Monastère de Luxeuil (Luxeuil-les-Bains, France)
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Stift Admont
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Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 172
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Lectionaries
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Summary note
Fragment from a Lectionary of major and minor prophets (Isaiah to Malachi).
Notes
recto: "... terram babylonis ... [cap]ta est ciuitas eius ..." [col. a]. "... teneritudine mea ... Et erit baby- lon in tumulos ..." [col. b]. verso: "... Quomodo capta est sesach ... per eam filius hominis ..." [col. a]. "... Et post hunc annu[m] ... quæ in eis sunt ..." [col. b].
Ms. fragment.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fragment of a leaf.
Layout: 13-14 lines in two columns.
Description: Written in the script of Luxeuil by at least 5 scribes. At least 15 fragments from this manuscript, reused in bindings at Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, have survived.
Decoration: First letter or syllable of each verse in large hollow capitals, some incorporating stylized fish, filled with yellow and/or orange.
Origin: Early 8th-century fragment written at the Abbey of Luxeuil or possibly at one of its affiliated houses.
Binding note
Unbound.
Stored in Mylar sleeve in a pamphlet binder.
Language note
Latin;
Script
Pre-Carolingian miniscule.
Provenance
The original codex, perhaps around 245 leaves in quaternions, appears to have been broken up for binding at the Benedictine Abbey of Admont in Austria, apparently by the 12th century. Robert Garrett purchased the manuscript leaf in 1936, probably from the bookseller E.P. Goldschmidt. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 392-394.
Place name(s)
France
Byname
Luxeuil fragment
OCLC
1100316897
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