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Auction archive: Lot number 104

Bede, Explanatio Apocalypsis, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, 11th cent

Estimate
£500 - £700
ca. US$631 - US$883
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 104

Bede, Explanatio Apocalypsis, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, 11th cent

Estimate
£500 - £700
ca. US$631 - US$883
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Bede, Explanatio Apocalypsis, in Latin, cutting from a large decorated manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, probably eleventh century] Rectangular fragment from the centre of a double column manuscript with remains of 24 lines in a handsome and skilled Romanesque bookhand with a strong st-ligature, tongued 'e' and a 'z' that descends below the line in angular zigzags, a few contemporary interlinear corrections by a second hand, a single 'Nota Bene' mark touched in red, major sections of text opening with lines of ornamental capitals, bright red rubrics and simple initials, recovered from reuse in a binding and hence with scuffs, folds and small holes, reverse scuffed and stained with sections illegible, 170 by 275mm. This sophisticated explanatio on the Apocalypse, written by the celebrated Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (672/3-735), is probably the very earliest of his scriptural commentaries. It was composed between 710 and 716, and was widely popularised throughout Europe by intense monastic study, and now survives in seventy-two recorded manuscripts (M.L.W. Laister, Hand List of Bede Manuscripts , 1943, p. 168).

Auction archive: Lot number 104
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 2020
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Bede, Explanatio Apocalypsis, in Latin, cutting from a large decorated manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, probably eleventh century] Rectangular fragment from the centre of a double column manuscript with remains of 24 lines in a handsome and skilled Romanesque bookhand with a strong st-ligature, tongued 'e' and a 'z' that descends below the line in angular zigzags, a few contemporary interlinear corrections by a second hand, a single 'Nota Bene' mark touched in red, major sections of text opening with lines of ornamental capitals, bright red rubrics and simple initials, recovered from reuse in a binding and hence with scuffs, folds and small holes, reverse scuffed and stained with sections illegible, 170 by 275mm. This sophisticated explanatio on the Apocalypse, written by the celebrated Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (672/3-735), is probably the very earliest of his scriptural commentaries. It was composed between 710 and 716, and was widely popularised throughout Europe by intense monastic study, and now survives in seventy-two recorded manuscripts (M.L.W. Laister, Hand List of Bede Manuscripts , 1943, p. 168).

Auction archive: Lot number 104
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 2020
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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