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Description: | The 'Pharetra' (Quiver) was probably written by the Franciscan friar Guibert of Tournai (d.1270), although it is often attributed to the more famous contemporary Franciscan, St. Bonaventura (1221-1274). It is a collection of quotations from various authorities, primarily St. Gregory, but also St. Bernard, St. Anselm, and the Venerable Bede, among others. It was probably written as a handy--and portable--summary of their writings, suitable for a mendicant friar to use as a portable reference to mine when composing sermons on the go. This manuscript has an ownership inscription of Spalding Priory, in Lincolnshire, on a flyleaf.
Following a prologue and list of chapters in Book I, the main text is introduced by an illuminated initial 'G' (for Gregorius) containing a dragon-like creature. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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