Expositio super regulam beati Augustini episcopi

Name:

Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1400

Description:

Rule in 7 chapters, with the text of each rule followed by exposition or commentary (f. 1r-47r). Includes a notice of different texts of the Augustinian rule with incipits (f. 47v); and a list of orders living under Augustinian rule (f. 48r).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, ca. 1937.; Sold by Lathrop G. Harper, 1948.

Subject:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Regula; Augustinians; Dominicans -- England; Dominicans; Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules -- Early works to 1800; Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

48 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 292 x 200 (222 x 149) mm bound to 300 x 197 mm

Geographic Subject:

England

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from heading (f. 1r).; Incipit prologus expositionis magistri Nycolai Trivet super regulam beati Augustini episcopi... (f. 1r). Incipit, cap. 1: Ante omnia fratres carissimi diligatur Deus (f. 1v).; Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 48 + i (modern paper); [1-48]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; ruled in lead.; Script: Written in a Gothic book script.; Decoration: 9-line red and blue initial with red and green penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); simple red initials throughout; extensive rubrication used for headings, paragraph markers, capitals, and underlining.; Binding: Modern vellum.; Origin: Written in the lower Rhine valley[?] or Lowlands in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 719