Item Info

Script: Cursive gothic
Language: Latin
Folio Number: ff. 129v-130r
Source: Rare Book Department
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This item appeared in the exhibition "Sacred Stories: The World's Religious Traditions" in the Rare Book Department, August 2015-January 2016.

This is the label from that exhibition:

This is a collection of Christian theological texts, including works by Saint Augustine and Pope Gregory I. The manuscript is opened to an excerpt of the Legenda Sanctorum, or Saints’ Lives, with the “Legenda de S. Dorothea” and the story of Saint Appollonia.

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Opening showing change of text

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This manuscript has been dated to ca. 1425.

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This manuscript contains indices to the Moralia in Job by Gregory the Great and Civitate Dei by Augustine of Hippo, as well as an account of an ancient veneral plague, and the lives of Sts. Prisca, Dorothy, Apollonia, Catherine, Barbara, and Vitus. The extensive life of St. Vitus should be noted: he was the patron saint of the monastery of Corvey on the river Weser.

Country: Country:Germany
City/Town/Township:Corvey ?

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1450
Image Dimensions Width: 313 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E 76