Legendary (fragment)

Published/Created:

Bavaria,
[between 800 and 850]

Physical Description:

1 l. : parchment ; 206 mm. x 163 mm.

Materials:

parchment

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms1151.htm

Notes:

Script: written in a proto-Carloingian miniscule. The scribe has been identified (by Bernard Bischoff) as Cundpato, monk of the Benedictine monastery of Freising.
Leaf has several small marks and holes indicating that it was used as part of a later bookbinding.
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 115). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011.

Abstract:

Fragment of a legendary of Saints Nicostratus, Claudius, Symphorian, Castorius and Simpliius, stonemasons martyred by Diocletian. The passage mentions the quarrying of porphyry columns for the temple of Diocletian.

Topics:

Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Topics:

Cundpato
Freisinger Domkloster

Language:

Latin

Genre:

fragments (AAT)
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 1151

Orbis Record:

9914538

Orbis Barcode:

39002094201283

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11216400

Citation:

Legendary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

11173510

PID:

digcoll:3957886