Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 2440

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Leiden University Libraries
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  • BPL 2440
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Date
  • German regions, southern part, 12th century, last quarter
Language
  • Latin
  • Ancient Greek
Title
  • Historia monachorum in Aegypto / Rufinus of Aquileia, and other text(s), BPL 2440
  • Vitae Patrum
  • Verba seniorum
Agent
Description
  • Form:
    1 volume, 20 leaves ; 224x149 mm
    Content:
    Contains: (ff. 1r-18r) Historia monachorum in Aegypto (= Vitae patrum, book 2) / Rufinus of Aquileia. Incomplete (last part only). - (ff. 18v-20v) Verba seniorum (= Vitae patrum, book 3). Incomplete (first part only).
    Note:
    Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Half parchment over cardboard. - Parchment spine covering taken from a 14th-century juridical manuscript.
    Textual: Vitae Patrum is a collection of hagiographic texts taken from several sources, parts of which were circulating independently. The text can be found in MPL 73-74 (reprint of Rosweyde's edition of 1628). - (ff. 1r-18r) Latin translation/adaptation by Rufinus of Aquileia of a work in Greek that was probably written by Timothy of Alexandria. - (ff. 18v-20v) Incipit: "Quidam seniorum patrum interrogantibus...".
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (Gumbert 2009): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
    Also described by MMDC.
    Bought from from the collection of H. Bos Kzn at the auction held by G.Th. Bom, Amsterdam, in 1943.
    Part of:
    Bibliotheca Publica Latina
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    12th century
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  • Leiden University Libraries
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