Friday, 1 September 2017

Terence's Comedies (Bodl. MS. Auct. F.2.13)

Parophilos and Mysis, f. 10r.

Colloquial name(s): Terence's Comedies
Official name(s): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F.2.13

Date: mid-12th Century (source)
Origin: St Alban's Abbey, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: LUNA

This manuscript consists of a copy of Terence's Comedies in Latin with Romanesque drawings which comprise the latest version of the Late Antique cycle of scene-illustrations (source). The illustrations were completed by four artists (source). The first, who illustrated 2v-17v, is identified as the Master of the Apocrypha Drawings in the Winchester Bible (source).

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