Details

Subject(s)

• Sin, Original—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Apologetics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Julian of Eclanum, Bishop 380-approximately 455 [Browse]
• Pelagianism [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869 [Browse]
• Ellis, John Henry, 1839 or 1840-1912 [Browse]
• Scheide, William Taylor, 1847-1907 [Browse]
• Rabaut, Jacques-Antoine, 1744-1820 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Scheide 25. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Vellum bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

St. Augustine's treatise contrasting the teachings of the Church's founding fathers with the rationalism of the Pelagians.

Notes

• Incipit: "Incipit liber exortacionis sancti Augustini episcopi ad quendam comitem. O mi frater ..."
• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 52 + i (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Origin: Written in Germany in the 12th century.

Binding note

Modern white vellum.

Language note

Latin

Provenance

Black stamp of Js. Ae. Rabaut Pr. (fol. 1r). Obtained by William T. Scheide from John Henry Ellis in 1898. Likely the ms. in the Giuseppe Libri sale (London, June 1, 1864. no. 63 = Feb. 7, 1895 to Ellis).

References

De Ricci, p. 2124, no. 25.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Germany

OCLC

54748703

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