YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND
MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 1151
Bavaria, [between 800 and 850]
Legendary (fragment).
In Latin.
1l. : parchment ; 206 mm. x 163 mm.
- This material is open for research.
- Fragment of a legendary of Saints Nicostratus, Claudius, Symphorian, Castorius and
Simpliius, stonemasons martyred by Diocletian. The passage mentions the quarrying
of porphyry columns for the temple of Diocletian.
- Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 115). Purchased from Bernard
Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book
Fund, 2011.
- Script: written in a proto-Carloingian miniscule. The scribe has been identified (by
Bernard Bischoff) as Cundpato, monk of the Benedictine monastery of Freising.
- Leaf has several small marks and holes indicating that it was used as part of a later
bookbinding.
- Legendary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University.
Subjects:
- Cundpato.
- Freisinger Domkloster.
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany -- 9th century.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.