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Life of St. Benedict : manuscript, [11--]

Title
Life of St. Benedict : manuscript, [11--]

Alternative Title: De vita et miraculis venerabilis Benedicti
Creator / Contributor
Gregory, I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Place of Origin
Italy
Date
11uu
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 49 cm.
print
Subjects
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
Abstract
A single leaf containing parts of chs. 31-35 (PG 66. 190B-198A).
Genre
biography
Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1100-1150.
Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1150-1200.
Rules (layout features)
Pricking (parchment marking)
Notes
Written in a 12th-century Italian minuscule hand in brown ink in 2 columns. Initial letters are uncials in red separated into the margins.
An old folio-number 249 appears in the margin of the recto.
MS Typ 965. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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