Septenarium pictum : manuscript, [12--]
- Title
- Septenarium pictum : manuscript, [12--]
- Place of Origin
- France
- Date
- 12uu
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 44 x 31 cm.
print - Subjects
- Lord's prayer--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Deadly sins--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800 - Abstract
- An allegorical table consisting of five concentric circles combining the seven principal sins and names of the petitions of the Lord's Prayer, gifts, virtues and beatitudes with a drawing of Christ at the center. There are drawings of the seven sins, with the figure of Superbia (pride) in chief. The Latin text derives from Hugh of St. Victor, De quinque septenis and Innocent III's De sacro altaris mysterio.
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-France-1200-1250.
Manuscripts, Medieval-France-1250-1300.
Marginalia (annotations)
Early works to 1800
Pictorial works - Notes
- Written probably in France in a minuscule hand. The drawings are lightly washed in brown, pink and green. Borders and spokes of the diagram are in the same colors.
The leaf is cropped and frayed, with the loss of some text and the edges of drawings.
In a tray case, 59 x 32 cm.
MS Typ 584. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Microfilm available in the Houghton Reading Room (reel 57 no. 4).
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2009. (Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library). Copy digitized: Houghton Library: MS Typ 584 - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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