Accession number
MS M.832
Object title
De inventione linguarum.
Display Date
mid 12th century.
Created
Near Krems, Lower Austria, mid 12th century.
Binding
Previously in 19th-century marbled tan paper boards; rebound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in tan oasis niger tooled with entwined medallions in a repeating pattern of centaur archers pursuing a stag.
Description
10 leaves (1 column, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 286 x 203 mm
Provenance
Written and illustrated in the Benedictine monastery of Göttweig in Austria, manuscript no. 39 (Cat. 101) in the monastery; H.P. Kraus; purchased from H.P. Kraus with the assistance of the Fellows in 1950.
Notes
Ms. bestiary; written and illustrated in Lower Austria in the Benedictine monastery of Göttweig, mid 12th century.
Texts: 1) Rabanus Maurus, De inventione linguarum (excerpts, fol. 1-1v); 2) Pseudo-Joannes Chrysostomus, De naturis bestiarum (fol. 2-10v).
Decoration: 32 colored drawings.
Texts: 1) Rabanus Maurus, De inventione linguarum (excerpts, fol. 1-1v); 2) Pseudo-Joannes Chrysostomus, De naturis bestiarum (fol. 2-10v).
Decoration: 32 colored drawings.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
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