Ɵ Augustine, Tractatus in Johannem, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Southern Italy, 11th century]

Ɵ Five small cuttings from Augustine, Tractatus in Johannem, 10:9-12, in Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, from a liturgical manuscript on parchment[Southern Italy, eleventh century] Five rectangular cuttings, each with remains of double column of 5 lines of text in a fine Beneventan minuscule, recovered from reuse as spine supports of a later binding and with holes and damage to edges, overall in fair and presentable condition, each cutting approximately 40 by 80mm.; bound within individual sheets of paper in cloth-covered card binding Provenance: 1. Written in southern Italy in a centre dependant on Montecassino in the eleventh century, and discarded and cut up for reuse in bindings at the close of the Middle Ages. They were evidently reused as spine supports on a series of volumes, which were later scattered widely; with other small cuttings from the same parent manuscript as Geneva, Comites Latentes, MS 224 (V. Brown, 'A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (II)', Mediaeval Studies, 50, 1988, p. 599), and 272, and a private UK collection (Brown, 'A Second New List III', pp. 343 and 315).2. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1356, acquired in Sotheby's, 6 December 1993, part of lot 8, with a further fragment added later by gift. Published: V. Brown, 'A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (III)', Mediaeval Studies, 56 (1994), p. 317.BMB. Bibliografia dei manuscritti in scrittura beneventana, 1994.