Contents

Data Source: Mmmonk

• In manuscript 120 two texts are bound together that were originally attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373): (ff. 1r-70r) Dialogus contra Arianos, Sabellianos et Photinianus; and (ff. 70r-111v) Tractatus de incomprehensibili dominicae incarnationis et humanae redemptionis sacramento. Scholarly consensus now ascribes the first work to Vigilius of Thapsus, a fifth-century bishop who authored other polemicist treatises. The attribution to Athanasius is most likely the result of him being one of the actors in the (fictional) dialogues between exponents of Trinitarian Christianity and rivalling branches, later denounced as heretical. The manuscript dates from the third quarter of the twelfth century and is probably copied at Ten Duinen abbey. The text is written in a single column per page, with initials in red, green and blue ink. Four large initials are found at the beginning of each of the three books of the Dialogus and at the beginning of the Tractatus. The first line is written in majuscules in alternating colours. The last (blank) leaf bears an ownership inscription of Ten Duinen. The manuscript is bound in an early Cistercian binding from the twelfth or thirteenth century. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]