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Vita et miraculae sancti Benedicti.

Accession number
MS M.55
Object title
Vita et miraculae sancti Benedicti.
Created
St. Florian, Austria, early 14th cent.
Binding
Formerly in brown stamped morocco by Gruel; rebound in 1940 by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1/2 black morocco.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
11 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 94 mm
Provenance
Sold 1895 by J. Rosenthal of Munich to Gruel in Paris; purchased by Richard Bennett in 1895; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 103; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. poetic life of Saint Benedict; written and illuminated at the Abbey of St. Florian (Augustinian Monastery of Canons Regular), Austria, in the early 14th century.
With Latin titles; in leonine hexameters; manuscript is incomplete.
Decoration: 21 full-page miniatures in grisaille (out of a possible 120 miniatures), picturing 42 episodes in the life of Benedict.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification