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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Book three: Chapter 39

Image Number: 
JRL1205317
Reference Number: 
Latin MS 104
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford 116
Image Title: 
Book three: Chapter 39
Alternative Image Title: 
Book three: Chapter 40
Parent Work Title: 
Smaragdus's Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict
Creator: 
Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, fl. 809-819
Creator Role: 
Author
Date Created: 
9th-10th century
Page: 
146r
Image Sequence Number: 
146r
Description: 
Book three: Chapter 39; Chapter 40. Chapter forty commences in green capitals (On the Measure of Drink). The text is written in a Visigothic minuscule on lines ruled with dry point. There are 27 lines to a page. The text of the Rule is written in red or green ink. Coloured or decorated initials are sometimes used, particularly following extracts from the Rule and to denote the start of the chapters. These are, in many cases, drawn in outline and sometimes filled in with colour – red, green and yellow.
Language Code: 
lat
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Religion
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Creation Site: 
Spain--Andalusia--Córdoba--Cardeña
Item Height: 
252 mm
Item Width: 
190 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2011-10-26
Multi Page Number: 
1475
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2012-07
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval