A beautiful codex with colorful and golden illustrations of the four evangelists and floral patterns. It belongs to the so-called Alexandrian or Egyptian Vulgate recension, which became the most wide spread version of the Gospels in the Coptic and other communities from the thirteenth century on...
Palimpsest, containing an Euchologion (Ritual), written over a New Testament (Gregory-Aland 1274; Gregory-Aland 1274b = Gregory-Aland 2822; Gregory-Aland 2823)
Contents: ff. 1-81v: Petrus Riga, Aurora, a commentary on the Bible in Latin verse (first redaction). Begins: 'Frequens sodalium meorum petition cum quibus conversando'. The final book in this copy is the Actus Apostolorum. The Aurora is also found in the following British Library manuscripts...