Item Summary

Commentary on the Bible in verse. Includes additions, prologues, prefaces and preliminary verses by Giles of Paris and others. Followed by a prayer by Giles of Paris.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Aurora]
Call Number
Princeton MS. 115
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3484zw881
Publisher
[France], [between 1200-1250]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1200-1250
Format
Manuscript
Extent
124 leaves : parchment ; 215 x 155 (144 x 110) mm bound to 223 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Unknown early provenance. Owner's signature "W. Greenwell," possibly William Greenwell (1820-1918), an English historian and archaeologist, who became librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral in 1862. In 1952, Prof. Alfred Lucien Foulet, Class of 1927, purchased the manuscript from the antiquarian bookdealer William Salloch (Catalogue 100, no. 663). Foulet's gift to Princeton University Library in August 1976 (Acc. no. AM 21859).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Alfred Lucien Foulet, 1976.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 342-344.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "Primo facta die duo, celum, terra leguntur, fit firmamenti spera sequente die ..."
Explicit: "Mathias, Marchus, Lucas, Simon, Timotheus, Barnabas et Tytus, hii docuere fidem."
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii (modern) + 124 + iii (modern) ; catchword ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: approximately 40 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Decoration: 2-line initials in red, dark red, light green and blue for major divisions of text. A few larger initials.
Origin: Written in France in the beginning of the 13th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. England, late 19th or early 20th century. Brown morocco over pasteboard. Gold-tooled turn-ins. Gilt edges. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
264

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e540c1e0-9f77-4659-8028-fa1dfb6793b5/manifest