Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica
IV Regum
F-368n
Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex MS 686
Natalie Nitsch, University of Chicago, 2025 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title
Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica
Shelfmarks
Codex MS 686
Page/Folio Reference
Box 1, MS 11
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Western Europe
Date of Origin
13th century
Script, Hands
Main text in gothica semitextualis libraria. Textual scholia in margins in at least two contemporary hands, also writing in a semitextualis libraria with many similar characteristics.
Original Condition
Height of Written Area
211 mm
Number of Columns
2
Width of Columns
55 mm
Number of Lines
41
Ruling
Ruled and lined in lead, pricking visible at outside margins.
More about the Condition
Formerly used to reinforce binding, some square trimming in margins.
Current Condition
Extent
Two bifolia
Dimensions
302 x 230 mm (dimensions of 1 leaf, folded)
More about the Current Condition
These bifolia were formerly first and third in a gathering of four bifolia.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Rubrication; red and blue capitals with alternate color penwork flourishing.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Petrus Comestor
- Text Language Latin
- Title Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, IV Regum
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Content Description
f.1r-v: ch. VI-IX; f.2r-v: ch. XIII-XVI; f.3r-v: ch. XXI-XXV; f.4r-v: ch. XXVII-XXX.
- Glosses and Additions Textual scholia in margins in at least two contemporary hands.
History
Provenance
Owned by Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel. Their collection of 68 manuscript fragments was acquired by the University of Chicago in 1926.