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Historia monachorum in Aegypto / Rufinus of Aquileia, and other text(s), BPL 2440

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Title	Historia monachorum in Aegypto / Rufinus of Aquileia, and other text(s), BPL 2440
Content	Contains: (ff. 1r-18r) Historia monachorum in Aegypto (= Vitae patrum, book 2) / Rufinus of Aquileia. Incomplete (last part only). - (ff. 18v-20v) Verba seniorum (= Vitae patrum, book 3). Incomplete (first part only).
Creator/other	Ruffinus, Aquilejensis (ca. 345-ca. 410) Timotheus Aelurus (-477) Bos, H. (1881-1970)
Shelfmark	BPL 2440
Subject (topical)	Reading culture religious texts (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 12th century
Note	Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Half parchment over cardboard. - Parchment spine covering taken from a 14th-century juridical manuscript. Textual: Vitae Patrum is a collection of hagiographic texts taken from several sources, parts of which were circulating independently. The text can be found in MPL 73-74 (reprint of Rosweyde's edition of 1628). - (ff. 1r-18r) Latin translation/adaptation by Rufinus of Aquileia of a work in Greek that was probably written by Timothy of Alexandria. - (ff. 18v-20v) Incipit: "Quidam seniorum patrum interrogantibus...". Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Gumbert 2009): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419 Also described by MMDC.
Reference	Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Gumbert 2009 = J.P. Gumbert, Illustrated Inventory of Medieval Manuscripts. Vol. 2. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek BPL (Hilversum 2009), MMDC = Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections MPL = J.P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina. Paris 1844-1855
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Part of	Bibliotheca Publica Latina
Language	Latin Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Country	Germany
Form	1 volume, 20 leaves ; 224x149 mm
Extent	29 scans
Published/created	German regions, southern part, 12th century, last quarter
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3760237
Published (digital)	Leiden University Libraries,