Codices Vossiani Latini
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Title:
Description in De Meyier Catalog
Language:
Latin
Date range:
Mid-10th c.
Author(s):
Anonymous (1r-v, 2r)
Cassiodorus (c. 485-c. 585) / Epiphanius scholasticus (6th c.) (2v-170r)
Cassiodorus (c. 485-c. 585) / Epiphanius scholasticus (6th c.) (2v-170r)
Description:
VLF 62 is a mid-10th-c. parchment codex, its leaves measuring 305 x 200 mm. It is constructed of 29 quires of mostly 1 or 4 bifolia totalling 170 leaves (340 pages). Quire signatures in Roman numerals or in Arabic letters appear at the end of quires in the lower margins. Many leaves have cracks in the parchment which were at some point sewn up with coloured thread. Written space covers 230/240 x 120/125 mm (40-42 lines in hard point ruling). The text was written by two scribes in Minuscula carolina. Apart from two lavishly decorated major initials on f. 2v and f. 3v, each book also starts off with major, coloured initials, decorated with human or animal figures. The start of each chapter receives simpler, rubricated initials. Inscriptions are also painted red. Fol. 1 dates from the 11th (?) c. It is partly damaged by water. The codex has an 18th-c. cardboard binding protected by multi-coloured paper and a parchment spine.
Classification:
Middle Ages - Historiography - Ecclesiastical history - Bible - Liturgy
Other Resources:
==> Library Catalogue Universiteit Leiden
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
DOI:
10.1163/9789004264243_F_062
Journal:
VLF 062 - Cassiodorus-Epiphanius