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Sins, Head to Toe

Information About This Item

Title

Sins, Head to Toe

Date

1290 - 1310

Description

Contents: Arranged from the sins of the head, through, secondly, those of the eyes, then as nn. 3, 4 and 5, the sins of the chest, of the hands and of the stomach.
Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Script: Gothic
Notes: The text appears to run continuously from recto to verso, suggesting a holster-shaped book.

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 119

Source

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta119_45

Format

Parchment - 315 x 92 mm - 50 long lines, bounding lines, with ink ruling

Language

Latin

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

England