Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fragment of an Anglo-Norman poem, 14th century (mid/late?)
Item
Identifier: MS 211/XXXV
Scope and Contents
Writing
This leaf is a fragment from the 13th-century Anglo-Norman poem, La Lumiere as Lais, by Peter of Peckham. The fragment is chapter 7-11 of the seventh distinction of Book II of the poem, which deals with the subject of sin. It is possibly from France or England.
Writing
Resembles the hand in another fragment of the same poem, in the Bodleian Library.
Dates:
14th century (mid/late?)
MS 17: Historia Scholastica by Petrus Comestor , 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 17
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica, an abridged version of the Bible written around 1170 by Petrus Comestor for the students of the cathedral school of Paris. The text consists in the retelling of stories (hence the name historia) taken from the Bible and in their explanation. It became an essential part of the curriculum of the theological school and greatly influenced popular Bibles produced in the 13th and...
Dates:
13th century