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Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super epistolas canonicas – Fragment

Parchment · Two pieces of the same leaf · 1401 – 1500 CE · England, Oxford? · 162 x 101 mm

F-p62e

Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, Herlufsholm 499.6, Pastedowns
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Scholarly descriptions
Century
15th century
Text Language
Latin
Script Type
Cursiva
Persons
Herlufsholms Bibliotek (Previous Owner)
John Hingeston 1606 (Previous Owner)
Laurentius Valla (Author)
Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author)
Thibaud Payen, -1570 (Printer of Host Volume)
Thott, Otto, 1703-1785 (Previous Owner)
Places
Origin: Lyon (France)
Summary

Two pieces of Nicolaus de Lyra's postil written in an English cursive hand. The leaf, which contains text from the commentary on St Peter's epistles, was reused as pastedowns in a copy of Elegantiarum Latinae linguae libri sex by Lorenzo Valla, printed in Lyon in 1555. 

Summary Author
Charlotte Epple (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
External Resources
↗ SDUB catalogue entry of Herlufsholm 499.6 (host volume)
↗ Universal Short Title Catalogue entry (host volume edition, USTC host volume)
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