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Lectura super capitulum Petri Lombardi and Theologiae Summa Compendium

(Bishop of Verden, 1399–1407)
(about 1210–about 1270)
1437
Place of ManufactureGermany
Medium/TechniqueTempera, ink, and gold on paper; bindings of deerskin over boards with bronze bosses and clasps
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 31 x 21.2 cm (12 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit LineFrederick Brown Fund
Accession number55.651b
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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
InscriptionsColophon, f. 102: Firmiter credimus et simpliciter confitemur…/…letitia cum vultu tuo. Ad quam letitia not per ducat trinitas…/Explicit liber super capitulo de sancta trinitate et fide catholica. Editus puta fremiter credimus per Reverendum magistrem Conradum Sultaro episcopum Verdensen. Finitus Anno domini 1437, in vigilia Sancti Laurencii per manus Conradi Friess de Herzogen Auerach scolarium…/in Bappenheym.
ProvenanceBy 1955, with WIlliam H. Schab; 1955, sold by William H. Schab to the MFA. (Accession date: October 20, 1955)
mid-13th century
about 1300–50
16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
about 1300–50
probably 1275–1300 (France), with additions in 1350–1400 (Italy)
late 13th century