Historia Scholastica

Unknown, Peter Comestorabout 1300

Details

Title: Historia Scholastica
Creator: Unknown, Peter Comestor
Date: about 1300
Location Created: Austria
Physical Dimensions: Leaf: 34.3 x 24.3 cm (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
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Medium: Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment bound between wood boards covered with white pigskin
Object Type: Manuscript
Number: Ms. Ludwig XIII 1
Markings: Markings: Marked on front pastedown, circular stenciled stamp in upper outer corner, "ZOLI 5-27".
Inscription: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed front pastedown, upper center, in pencil, "Ms 3 / Petrus Comestor / historia Scholastica / [illegible] / Mit 18 gross Figuren... / 346 Bit / Nr [?] 20"; upper edge, inscriptions in pencil (erased). Inscribed front flyleaf, center, in blue pencil, "343 fol." ("343" changed in pencil to "346"). Inscribed fol. 346v, scribal explicit, "Laus tibi Christe, quoniam liber explicit iste. Qui scripsit scripta, eius dextera sit benedicta." Inscribed back pastedown, lower center, in pencil, "1 2, 2-35 10, 36 4 [second # in each pair in superscript] = 346 leaves. A few leaves lacking at beginning. coll. HPK[raus] per J[ohn] S K[ebabian] XII/60."; lower outer corner, in the same hand, in pencil, "7089" (underlined); lower outer corner, in a different hand, in pencil, "SF CS 22".
Culture: Austrian
Classification: Manuscripts

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