Aurora
Information About This Item
Creator
Peter Riga
Title
Aurora
Date
1200 - 1250
Description
Contents: Biblical epic, written in distichs in the 13th century.
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
Relation
M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 125
Source
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta125_45
Format
Parchment - 72 x 77 mm - One column visible with 14 visible lines, with bounding lines plus 2 lines 5 and 10 mm to left of column to mark initial, with leadpoint ruling on recto (ruling on verso is indiscernable)
Language
Latin
Type
manuscript fragment
Coverage
England