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Partial Leaves from The Confessions
Partial Bifolium from The Confessions
Partial Leaves from The Confessions
Author of text: Saint Augustine (Roman, North Africa, A.D. 354–430)
Swiss
Medieval (Romanesque)
late 12th century
Place of Manufacture: Monastery, Switzerland
Medium/Technique
Ink on parchment
Dimensions
Overall (page dimensions of half leaf): 15 x 21.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession NumberRES.17.86
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts – Manuscripts
DescriptionUpper half of a bifolium (sheet of parchment folded in half to produce two leaves), with text from The Confessions, written by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo in Roman North Africa, in 397.
f. 1: 4.11.16 "deum" - 4.12.18 "abiit", 4.12.19 "ut redeamus" - "spiritu eius"
f. 2: 5.9.16 "eius tam falsa" - 5.9.17 "humiliatum", 5.9.17 "tua ingerebat" - 5.9.18 "meam quam mea" (Patrologia Latina 32:700-701 and 1713-1714).
1 column of text in Latin, with 18 of approximately 30 original lines.
Written in a Swiss Romanesque bookhand in black ink. Heading (on verso of f. 1): "IIII" in blue and red epigraphic capitals.
Used as a binding fragment at a later date.
f. 1: 4.11.16 "deum" - 4.12.18 "abiit", 4.12.19 "ut redeamus" - "spiritu eius"
f. 2: 5.9.16 "eius tam falsa" - 5.9.17 "humiliatum", 5.9.17 "tua ingerebat" - 5.9.18 "meam quam mea" (Patrologia Latina 32:700-701 and 1713-1714).
1 column of text in Latin, with 18 of approximately 30 original lines.
Written in a Swiss Romanesque bookhand in black ink. Heading (on verso of f. 1): "IIII" in blue and red epigraphic capitals.
Used as a binding fragment at a later date.
ProvenanceBy 1917, Denman W. Ross (1853-1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, gift of Denman W. Ross. (Accession date: February 15, 1917)