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Expositio super regulam beati Augustini episcopi.

Author/Creator:
Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
Publication:
[Germany? or Netherlands?], [14--]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
48 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 292 x 200 (222 x 149) mm bound to 300 x 197 mm
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Subjects:
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.
England.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Summary:
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).
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).
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, ca. 1937.
Sold by Lathrop G. Harper, 1948.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 3 (Ms. Latin 8).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 719
OCLC:
212117427