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De sacramentis (MS M.757).

Accession number
MS M.757
Object title
De sacramentis (MS M.757).
Display Date
12th century.
Created
Eastern France, 12th century.
Binding
18th-century French calf; repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; is in red slipcase.
Description
135 leaves (1 column, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 150 mm
Provenance
Owned by the Premonstatensians of St. Marie Rengeval, near Toul, France (monastery founded in 1152); probably still in the monastery in 1332 according to notes on fol. 1; no. 3012 in a French catalogue from ca. 1700; Sotheby's sale (London, Dec. 18, 1929) to Quaritch; purchased from Quaritch in 1929.
Notes
Ms. liturgical commentary; written and decorated in eastern France in the 12th century.
Text: De sacramentis, book 2, parts 1-18.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification