Beinecke MS 346               Italy, s.XII^^1/4
Augustine, In Ioannis Evangelium (1 bifolium)

f. 1r-v //derant.  abierunt ad phariseos.  et dixerunt eis quae fecit ihesus.
siue annuntiando...ante oculos eorum ascendit in celum.  ibi sedet ad
dexteram patris qui iudica//

f. 2r-v //fima.  Audio superius dicentem.  Ueniet hora glorificetur...
in nouissimo die.  Preuidebat ergo dominus qui sciebat//

     Augustine, Tractatus CXXIV in Ioannis Evangelium.  The text is not
continuous; R. Willems, ed., CC lat. ser. 36 (1954) folio 1:  pp. 431-34; folio
2: pp. 446-49.

     Parchment, 1 bifolium, 420 x 302 (312 x 217) mm.  2 columns, 44 lines;
8 mm. between lines.  Ruled in hard point on hair side before folding; double
horizontal bounding lines that extend through gutter; double vertical bounding
lines for each column.  Prickings (diagonal slashes) in all margins except
inner.  Written in late elegant Carolingian minuscule.  Decorative initial,
10-line, on f. 1v:  white-vine ornamentation on red, purple, blue, and yellow ground
(cf. K. Berg, Studies in Tuscan Twelfth-Century Illumination [Oslo, 1968]
pl. 38 initial A).  Plain initials, heading, chapter notations, running
title (f. 1v), in red.

Written in Italy, probably Tuscany, in the first quarter of the 12th century,
as part of a larger codex (foliated 146, 152 in a later hand).  Large holes
in gutter suggest the bifolium once served as front and back flyleaves.
Presented to the Beinecke Library in 1968 by Thomas E. Marston.

Barbara A. Shailor