MS MED 1.2: Athanasius; Vigilius Tapsensis., nd

Composite volume. 130 numbered vellum pages. Neat humanistic script. Written space 150 x 90mm, 26 lines per page. f.1 features main intial, letter F in gold illumination, pink, green and blue, with a white interlaced vine and dots. Cupids hold a gold hoop in the lower margin.

Boards covered in a mottled, dyed vellum, with gold edges to text block. 'Mr Sargent's own' on front flyleaf. Written in Italy - potentially Florence. Described as MS 62 in Pettigrew's catalogue of the manuscripts of the Duke of Sussex, Bibliotheca Sussexiana, i (1827).

1.2.1 ff.1-66v: Athanasii Alexandrini Episcopi Contra Gentiles per Ambrosium Monacum Florentinum in Latinum Traductus. Liber Primus Incipt. Vere ac diuine religionis... deum et patrem in cristo iesu domino nostro cui... amen.
1.2.2 ff.67-97: Incipit liber primus beati Athanasii alexandrini episcopi de unita trinitate deitatis. tu unus deus pater... et unitas et sempiternitas trinitatis. Explicit liber viii.
1.2.3 ff.97-116: Incipit liber eiudem athanasii episcopi de Spiritu Sancto. Hiis qui filium dei creatum... effici poterimus. Explicit liber de dpiritu sancto.
1.2.4 ff. 116-124: Incipit professio arriana et confessio captholica Eiusdem Athanasii. Arriani dicunt filium dei non de substantia dei patris genitum... quam creatori qui est benedictus in secula seculorum amen. Explicit professio arriana et confession captholica.
1.2.5 ff.124-130v: Incipit fides beati athanasii alexandrini episcopi. Credere iubemur in dei patris... cum omnibus nobis Amen.