Gregory the Great — 12th century; Italian, Padua (?)
MS. Lat. th. c. 35
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Description
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Title
Gregory the Great — 12th century; Italian, Padua (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. th. c. 35
Place of origin
Italian, Padua (?)
Date
12th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
171 (no flyleaves, but a strengthening-strip is at each end
Hands
Good rounded late caroline.
Decoration
Red initials.
Binding
Sewn on four cords and bound in three-quarter brown leather and brown paper over pasteboards
Provenance
An erased ownership inscription, perhaps 13th-cent., in the upper margin of fol. 1r was read using UV light by N. R. Ker in 1943 as 'Iste liber est sancti Jacobi de pentecursus de padua'
Item 308 in a bookseller's catalogue, priced £15 15s.
The upper pastedown inscribed in a late 19th- or early 20th-cent (?)French hand.
Sotheby's, 4 April, 1939, lot 267, bought by Maggs for £4 10s.
Maggs Bros., with their acquisition note and price-code on the lower pastedown.
Inscribed 'N. R. Ker, 1942' on the upper pastedown; given by him, 1975. Formerly Dep. c. 297.
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