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Manuscripts, Latin

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Latin.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

ff. 3v-4r
ff. 3v-4r

MS 5: Biblia sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 5
Scope and Contents This manuscript contains the text of the Vulgate for the Old Testament and part of the Gospel of Saint Matthew (from the beginning to 18:34). It omits the Psalms, but it includes First Esdras, a different version of the canonical Book of Ezra, which was ultimately rejected by the Western Church since it is not present in the Hebrew Bible; it still survives in several copies of the...
Dates: 13th century

MS 13: Saint John Gospel (glossed) [Bible. John. Latin. Vulgate], first half of the 12th century

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Identifier: MS 13
Contents The manuscript contains the gospel of Saint John according to the Vulgate and a set of glosses [i.e. annotations and comments] to the whole text. The first chapters of the gospel are missing and the text begins at John 9: verse 30. The text contained in the glosses is that of the Glossa Ordinaria, an extensive commentary on the Scriptures which was extremely popular in the Middle Ages. It has generally attributed to Walafrid Strabo, abbot of Reichenau,...
Dates: first half of the 12th century