[Gospel of St. Luke with glossa ordinaria]

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New Testament Gospel of St. Luke. Incomplete at beginning, begins with Luke 7:2. Marginal gloss.

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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "seruus male habens erat moriturus qui ille erat pretiosus ..."
Explicit: "" ... audantes et benedicentes deum."
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper flyleaf) + 66 + ii (paper flyleaves) ; partial modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; glosses in ca. 40 lines arranged in columns on each side of the text.
Decoration: Red or red-and-blue lines drawn around some units of text, marginal glosses, and flaws in parchment and embellished with elaborate, fanciful red and brown ink pen decoration. One- and two-line initials in black or red, some with embellishments.
Origin: Probably written at the Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame in Aubazine, France, in the second half of the 12th century.

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Later binding. England, 19th century. Brown half-calf and marbled paper binding over pasteboard.

Provenance:

Held at the Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame in Aubazine until probably the time of the French Revolution. Later owned by Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. Sold from his collection in 1844 to Thomas Thorpe. Purchased by Bernard Quaritch in 1860. George Dunn acquired it in 1894. Sold from his collection in 1913 through Sotheby's, London to Bertram Dobell, perhaps for Giuseppe Martini. In 1914, Grenville Kane purchased it from Martini. Princeton University Library acquired the manuscript from Kane's heirs in February 1946.

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Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 4-5.

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