Item Info

Script: Romanesque minuscule
Language: Latin
Folio Number: f. 104r
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

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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:

John Cassian (360-435) was one of the founders of Christian monasticism in the West, and the Collationes recounts conversations he had with Egyptian hermits on questions of solitude and spirituality. The beginning of the text is announced by the variously-sized capitals in red and green.

Notes: Initials V and S
Notes: This manuscript contains an incomplete copy the XXIV Collationes, or Conferences, of John Cassian, a monk and ascetic who lived ca. 360 - 435 AD. The Collationes record the conversations of John Cassian and his companion Germanus with Egyptian hermits on the various aspects of the solitary life and hermitic spirituality. The initial S begins the fourteenth collation to Abbot Nestoritis.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1466056
Country: Country:England

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1150
Image Dimensions Width: 242 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E 63
Creator Name: John Cassian - Author