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Title

Aurora

Authors

• Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209
• Aegidius of Paris

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 747
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615239
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487568

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1250-1300

Place

France

Summary

Verse paraphrase of the Bible: Old Testament (excluding Psalms, prophets and some other books) (f. 1-109v); New Testament (Gospels and Acts, excluding Epistles and Revelation) (f. 109v-149v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit: Scire cupis lector quis codicis istius autor, Audi quid breviter dicat ad ista liber: Petrus et Aegidius me conscripsere...[Aegidius' preface from his second redaction, before 1208].
   

Extent

154 leaves : 248 x 150 (202 x 59) mm. bound to 264 x 168 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 154; [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern half leather over wooden boards with old guards (2 vellum incunable leaves from a canonical text with commentary, probably printed by Peter Schöffer of Mainz).

Layout

Written in 60 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.

Decoration

Red and blue used for initials; rubricated headings throughout; diagram or chart of the deadly sins (f. 50r); faint sketch of the Virgin[?] (f. 125).

Script

Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with marginal commentary in a second hand.

Subjects topical

• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Christian
• France
• History
• Biblical

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Verse commentary on Old Testament, f. 1r
• fol. 109r — Verse commentary on New Testament, f. 109r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused incunable leaf pastedown, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 1v
• fol. 48r — Penwork initial, Initial U, f. 48r
• fol. 50r — Diagram, Seven Deadly Sins, f. 50r
• fol. 50r — Marginal note, f. 50r
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 81v
• fol. 83v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 83v
• fol. 110r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 110r
• fol. 125r — Drawing, Virgin[?], f. 125r
• fol. 130r — Drawing, Figure holding chalice[?], f. 130r
• fol. 154v — Owner notes, f. 154
• Inside back cover — Reused incunable leaf pastedown, Inside back cover