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Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps 75/III (Tn)

Manuscript:Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps 75/III
Date:1388
Date (source):1388 [Czyżak, p. 319]
Origin:Likely created by the Samland Cathedral Chapter
Format and material:codex, paper
Dimensions:285 x 210 mm
Selected contents:Texts:
  • 1r-86v: Petrus Riga: Aurora
  • 112r-151v: Historia Scholastica Only New Testament, with Acts of the Apostles
Diagrams:
  • 159v: Tree of Vices

Compendium historiae

Folio range:88r-97r
Incipit:Considerans sacre theologie hystorie prolixitatem
Text language:Latin
Text Version:interpolated
Graph Version:
Manuscript Group:
Graph:Vertically oriented
Linea Christi present, centered
Medaillons: Shape: Circle Only
Inscriptions:
color of inscription: red and black, no color distinction between female and male.
Adam and Eve: two medallions
Diagrams:90r: 12 Tribes
96v: Plan of Jerusalem
94v: Encampments
Secundo folio:Arfaxath [88r]
External links:Description: https://kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/publication/211523/edition/252728#description
Images: https://kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/publication/211523/edition/252728/content
IIIF-manifest: https://kpbc.umk.pl/iiif/manifest/252728.json?format_id=3?manifest=https://kpbc.umk.pl/iiif/manifest/252728.json?format_id=3
Further literature in our Zotero bibliography

Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps 75/III, HD_016. Image rights remain with the library.

Citation recommendation

Eleanor Goerss (manuscript description) (ed.): Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps 75/III. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2025. https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:chigc.tbu-rps-75-iii.

Credits

  • Data modeling, data curation and web development: Roman Bleier, Sina Krottmaier and Jakob Sonnberger
  • Manuscript description: Eleanor Goerss (supervision) and Katharina Bauer
  • Bibliography: Maria Streicher
  • Project principal investigators: Andrea Worm, Roman Bleier and Patrick Sahle
  • Mercator Fellows: Laura Cleaver and Franz Fischer

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