Manuscript

Morgan Library, MS M.832
(De naturis bestiarum)

Codicology

Produced: Austria, c. 1150
Current Location: Morgan Library, New York, New York, USA
Manuscript Type: Miscellany
Physiologus Version: Dicta Chrysostomi
Language: Latin
Folios: 10
Author: Pseudo-Joannes Chrysostomus
Illustrated: Yes
Binding: Modern tan oasis niger
Media: Vellum
Script: Minuscule
Dimensions: Height: 28.6 cm Width: 20.3 cm
Sample page - Morgan Library MS M.832
Folio 10r

Description

Physiologus, Dicta Chrysostomi version; written and illustrated in the Benedictine monastery of Göttweig in Austria, manuscript no. 39 (Cat. 101) in the monastery; purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1950.

Texts:

  • Rabanus Maurus, De inventione linguarum, a treatise on alphabets (excerpts, f.1r-1v)
  • Pseudo-Joannes Chrysostomus De naturis bestiarum (f 2r-10v). Dicta Chrysostomi version of the Physiologus.. Title in rubrics: Incipiunt dicta Johanne Crisostimi. De naturis bestiarum

Other manuscripts with these texts include Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1010 and British Library, Sloane MS 278.

32 colored drawings. The illustrations are simple colored pen drawings, shaded in red, green or lavender.

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