Legenda aurea sanctorum

Description

The medieval foliation is one too high after f. 45. Quires are numbered and horizontal catchwords included. Decoration: One 10-line historiated initial in blue patterned in white and on decorated gold ground. Written in textualis rotunda. Lacking the lives of Sophia, Timothy, Fabian, Apollinaris and Boniface. From the library of Lord Brotherton. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 58. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), pp. 29-30.

Metadata

Identifier mswdp38r
IRN 372701
Class Mark BC MS 23
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/mswdp38r
Collection(s) Medieval Manuscripts
Category Archive Print
Parent Record Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)
Creator(s) Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa
Date [ca. 1300-1320]
Size and Medium 1 v. (ii, 292, ii leaves) (2 columns, 39 lines)

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