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Partial Bifolium from The Confessions
Partial Bifolium from The Confessions

Partial Bifolium from The Confessions

Saint Augustine (Roman, North Africa, A.D. 354–430)
late 12th century
Place of ManufactureSwitzerland
Medium/TechniqueInk on parchment
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions of half leaf): 15 x 21.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession numberRES.17.86
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
ProvenanceBy 1917, Denman W. Ross (1853-1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, gift of Denman W. Ross. (Accession date: February 15, 1917)
Detail: folio 39, recto
Saint Augustine
mid-13th century
Partial leaf from a Homiliary
Saint Bede the Venerable
late 12th century
View: f.1
16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
Full view, open position
Ludolf von Sachsen
about 1450–75
View: Open book
about 1300–50
Folios 24v-25r, Feast of Saint John the Baptist
late 14th century
Detail: folio 1, verso
late 13th century