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Liber explanationem in Samuelem.

Accession number
MS M.335
Object title
Liber explanationem in Samuelem.
Display Date
first half of the 9th century.
Created
France, first half of the 9th century.
Binding
French 18th-century speckled vellum; Troussures shelfmark (13) on spine; black label below lettered: Bedae Supra Samuelem.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
144 leaves (2 columns, 32-33 lines), bound : vellum ; 340 x 250 mm
Provenance
Beauvais Cathedral (15th century catalogue, no. 52); Comte le Caron de Troussures; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through De Tonnay from the Comte Marie Louis le Caron de Troussures in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; written in France in the first half of the 9th century.
Script
Carolingian minuscule with rustic and uncial capitals
Language
Latin
Century
Classification