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Summary Catalogue no.: 29281

Contents

Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica

The latter part of the Historia Scholastica, from Hist. Macc. ii. 8 ('Erat tamen eum Hyrcano') to the end, twenty-nine quires or 232 leaves being wanting at the beginning

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 88 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 14.75 × 11 in.

Layout

2 cols

Hand(s)

Written by two scribes. The first scribe and illuminator (perhaps c. 1200 CE) extend to the end of the Historia Evangelica; the (slightly later) second scribe and illuminator cover the Liber Aetuum (from fol. 48). Both parts were probably written at the same monastery

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1305

Initials

Additions: The first part has glosses in the margins, and some even indented in the text and clearly copied from an older manuscript

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; Germany (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought at the A. J. Horwood sale (lot 1307) on 12 June 1883

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1905), Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 600
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 601

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-08-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905)

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