London. British Library, Add MS 38687

Source

The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project

Library

London. British Library

Shelfmark

• British Library, Add MS 38687

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q203019

Language

• Latin

Title

• Hrabanus Maurus, Commentaries on Deuteronomy and Joshua

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Raban Maur (0780-0856?)

  Original form

  • Hrabanus Maurus, c 780-856, Archbishop of Mainz

  Other form

  • Raban Maur (0780-0856?)
  • Hrabanus Maurus (0780-0856?)
  • RABANI MAURI
  • Rabanus Maurus
  • Hrabanus Maurus
  • RABANUS MAURUS
  • Raban Maur
  • Rabani Mauri
  • Rabanus
  • Raban Maur 0780-0856?
  • Hrabanus Maurus 780-856
  • Raban Maur, arquebisbe de Magúncia, 780-865
  • Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
  • Rabanus Maurus, Arzobispo de Maguncia 784?-856
  • Author: Hrabanus, Maurus
  • Rhabanus Maurus
  • Hrabanus <Maurus> (780-856)
  • Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856.
  • Rabano Mauro, Beato, 780?-856
  • Hrabanus, Maurus, 780-856
  • Hrabanus <Maurus>
  • Rabanus Maurus, 784?-856
  • Rabanus Maurus, 784?-856 > , co-autor
  • HRABANUS MAURUS
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  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdataea08c6ff9b65309d8ce4f036b9eea69b82615a78

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  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q14493

Description

• This manuscript contains the commentaries on the Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Joshua of the Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus (b. c. 780, d. 856). It was one of several biblical commentaries that the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux, produced in the 1st quarter of the 13th century. The manuscript was preserved in the abbey's library from the 12th century until the monastery was dissolved by French revolutionary forces in 1790.Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Hrabanus Maurus, dedicatory letter to Freculphus, Bishop of Lisieux (d. 850), ‘Incipit epistola Rabani ad a friduricum [sic] episcopum in exposicione Deuteronomium’. ff. 1v-3r: A table of contents for Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Deuteronomy. ff. 3r-95r: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Deuteronomy (Books I-IV). ff. 96r-97r: Hrabanus Maurus, dedicatory letter to Frederick I, Bishop of Utrecht (d. 838), beginning, ‘Incipit epistola Rabani ad friduricum episcopum in exposicione Josue’. ff. 97r-98r: A table of contents for Rabanus Maurus, Commentary on Joshua. ff. 98r-150r: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Joshua (Books I-III). f. 150r: A book curse (rubricated) from the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny: ‘Volumine isto continetur Rabanus super deuteronomium . Et super Josue. Est autem liber iste sancte Marie pontiniacensis. Cuius fraude vel dolo perierit ; anathema sit’. [f. 95v and f. 150v are empty].Decoration:7 large initials in frames with interlace containing foliate decoration, some with zoomorphic figures, in colours at the beginning of the preface and the books (ff. 1r, 3r, 21r, 48v, 71r, 98r, 116r). 1 large initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing at the beginning of Joshua (f. 96r). 1 large red initials in a green frame with blue penwork decoration and pen-flourishing (f. 98r). Small initials in red or blue throughout the manuscript, some with penwork decoration in blue or red.

Place

• Preferred form

  • Pontigny Abbey (France)

  Original form

  • Pontigny, France

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  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q81666

Rights

• Public domain in most countries other than the UK

License

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Digitisation

• http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100063333703.0x000001

Manifest URL

• https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100063333703.0x000001