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Parables

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Historia Scholastica by Petrus Comestor [fragment] , 13th-14th century

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Identifier: MS 107/ff. 61r-62v
Contents This section is an excerpt from the Historia Scholastica by Petrus Comestor. This text is a biblical paraphrase originally written in the 12th century and sometimes called the “Medieval Popular Bible”. This excerpt contains the parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Prodigal Son.It begins on f. 61r and is titled De parabola ovis et dragine et filii prodigi. It starts with the words ...
Dates: 13th-14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including twenty-four texts