Florilegium
Quotations from St Augustine, St Ambrose, St Jerome, Gregory the Great, Guibert de Nogent and St Bernard of Clairvaux
F-aymi
Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1498
Birthe Verscuren, KU Leuven, 2023 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Florilegium containing quotations from St Augustine, St Ambrose, St Jerome, Gregory the Great, Guibert de Nogent and St Bernard of Clairvaux
Shelfmarks Ms. 1498
Former Shelfmarks Fragm. 611
Material Parchment
Script, Hands
Praegothica, two hands.
General Remarks
The fragments were handed down together with MSS 1495-1502.
Original Condition
Page Height at least 83 mm
Page Width at least 156 mm
Height of Written Area at least 83 mm
Width of Written Area at least 110 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 14
Line Height 6 mm
Ruling No ruling
Current Condition
Dimensions 80-83 x 151-156 mm (fol. 1) and 80 x 150-155 mm (fol. 2)
More about the Current Condition
The inner margin and part of the text of fol. 1 are cut off, as are upper and lower margin and text. The fragments were transmitted hidden behind a glued sheet of scrap paper with 18th-century modern accounts. They were underwent conservation in June 2010 by Schrijen boekbinders & boekrestaurateurs.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Capitals at the beginning of each quotations are colour-stroked in red; there are some red glosses in the margin.
Content
- Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Quotations from St Augustine, St Ambrose, St Jerome, Gregory the Great, Guibert de Nogent and St Bernard of Clairvaux
- Content Description The quotations are grouped per work. They include extracts from Ambrosius Mediolanensis, De paradiso and Expositio de Psalmo CXVIII; Augustinus Aurelius, Tractatus in Evangelium Johannis; Bernardus Claraevallensis, De consideratione ad Eugenium papam, Epistolae (De moribus et officio episcoporum), In laudibus Virginis matris, Liber de diligendo Deo, Sermones and Sermones super Cantica Canticorum; Gregorius I, Moralia in Iob; Guibertus Novigentensis, Sermo in Verba sapientiae; Hieronymus Stridonius, Epistolae