Vies des Pères (fragments)

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.4177
  • Dates of Creation
      1250 (Circa)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      2 leaf/leaves 2 leaves

Scope and Content

The upper part of two unnumbered leaves containing part of Demi-ami, no. 39 of the Vies des Pères. Written in a xiii cent. French text hand. Capitals alternately in red and blue, with filling and flourishing in the other colour. Bound as flyleaves in In Psalmos Aliquot Davidicos Philippi Melanchthonis Enarrationes Doctissimae (Haganoae, 1528), Adams M?1070 and other works by the same author; the binding is of plain brown calf, possibly contemporary.

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Acquisition Information

Bought from Bull and Auvache, April 1899.

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Bibliography

(as listed, for example, on p. 240 of E. Schwan, 'La Vie des Anciens Pères', Romania xiii (1884), 233–63).The text is printed with a discussion by P. Meyer, 'Fragments de Manuscrit français', Romania xxxv (1906), 22–67 (38–46).