Accession number:
MS M.559
Title:
Devotional single leaf.
Created:
ca. 800.
Binding:
Formerly inlaid in a 20th-century blue morocco folder; now matted.
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1917.
Description:
1 leaf (1 column, 21 lines) : vellum ; 200 x 150 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Giuseppe Martini in 1917.
Notes:
Ms. single leaf from the Synonyma; written and rubricated in Germany, ca. 800.
Text: Liber I, 36-41.
"A type of Anglo-Saxon minuscule practised at Fulda and some other Continental centres"--Cf. Lowe.
Another leaf from this manuscript was sold to George A. Plimpton by Giuseppe Martini; this leaf was bequeathed by Plimpton to Columbia University in 1936 and is now Columbia University Libraries. MS Plimpton 129--Cf. PML files.
Script:
Anglo-Saxon minuscule
Language:
Latin
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