Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

MS. 5
Aurora
Contents:
  1. Prologue to the Aurora
  2. Aurora
Date of origin:13th century
Place of origin:France

Support: Parchment codex
Foliation: Every folio is numbered in lead in a modern hand in upper right corner.
Dimensions:160mm x 100mm (leaves), 111mm x 58mm (ruled space)
Collation:1-198 2010 21-228 with catchwords at the bottom center of every gathering.
Script:Written in littera gothica textualis media in a single hand. Corrections in a contemporary hand at the bottom of ff. 21v-22r.

Binding:Bound in 17th century brown calf leather binding with blind fillet border lines on covers and back, which has been repaired.
Provenance: There is a ms. ex libris on the bottom of fol. 2r "Dono datus collegio Aginnensi societatis Jesu a Bernardo Carles bibliopola Tolosanus 1599."

Bibliography:Paul E. Beichner, C.S.C., ed., Aurora Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata: A Verse Commentary on the Bible, (Publications in Medieval Studies, vol. XIX), UND Press, 2 vols., 1965.