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