Accession number
MS M.744
Object title
Expositio super Genesis.
Created
Cîteaux, France, 12th century.
Binding
Early 19th-century calf over boards.
Description
107 leaves (2 columns, 29-30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 340 x 250 mm
Provenance
Owned in the 12th century by the Abbaye de Cîteaux; J.B. Marduel, vicar of Saint-Nizier at Lyon; Sotheby's sale (the property of a gentleman; London, Feb. 23, 1921, lot 408) to Quaritch; purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library, perhaps in 1928.
Notes
Ms. Biblical commentary; written and decorated at the Abbaye de Cîteaux, France, 12th century.
Decoration: 2 large penwork initials; French Romanesque style.
Decoration: 2 large penwork initials; French Romanesque style.
Contents
fols. 1r-2v: Incipit refatio in expositione Angelomi .... -- fols. 3r-107r: Incipit expositio angelomi super genesim .... -- fol. 107v: Explicit opusculum angelomi monachi in genesis.
Script
cursive scripts
Language
Latin
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