| Location: | Fribourg/Freiburg |
| Library / Collection: | Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek |
| Shelfmark: | Ms. L 34 |
| Manuscript title: | Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea |
| Caption: | Parchment · 375 ff. · 24 x 16.5-17 cm · Interlaken (?) · 14th century |
| Language: | Latin |
| Manuscript summary: | James of Voragine’s Golden Legend, one of the most copied texts of the Middle Ages, appears here in a meticulous fourteenth-century copy. This copy is particularly noteworthy for the exceptionally elegant and refined stitchwork that fixes defects in the parchment (holes and tears), which brings to mind similar works from the double convent of canons and canonesses at Interlaken. The decoration resembles the output of a Zurich workshop. Little is known of the early history of the manuscript, but it as attested in the Cistercian monastery of Hauterive from at least the seveneenth century. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-bcuf-L0034 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bcuf/L0034 |
| How to quote: | Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 34: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bcuf/L0034) |
| Online since: | 03/31/2011 |
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