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This is a thirteenth-century compendium of moral and didactic writings, with a colophon dating the manuscript to 1268. The book contains a varied collection of texts, ranging from Roman Seneca in the 1st century, through the North African apologist Fulgentius in the sixth, to the near-contemporary sermons and the recent Moralitates of the learned Englishman Holcot. The manuscript is a good example of a late medieval compendium, and contains a variety of authors known all across Europe.
Support: Parchment; Extent: vi + 119; 180 x 130 bound to 184 x 131; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, very lightly drawn, upper center recto; Collation: 1 (6, +1 +3), 2-11 (12); Catchwords: Catchwords visible throughout: 12v, 36v, 48v, 60v, 72v, 84v, 96v, 108v
One column, 29 lines, occasional leaves are frame ruled but most are not ruled; first quire is entirely frame ruled and prickings are made along the ruling lines; prickings visible on the edges of pages throughout the rest of the quires
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Three diagrams, with explanation, of the Arbor virtutum, the first having the Sacramentum corporis Domini nostri Jesu Christi as its trunk (ff. 56r-58v)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
First leaf (penciled foliation [2]) has small illegible name in upper left, potential previous owner; "August 1818"
Multiple misnumbered/out of order foliation numbers; in the 90s, foliation is sometimes partially cut off the top of the page
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Northern Italy?
1268
Original wooden boards and pigskin; lined with a parchment leaf of a 13th century theological text
Latin
Owned by the Carthusians of Treviso, f. 44 signed "per manum Walteri fratris Carth(usiani)"; in Paris, 1818; n. 10 in a French 14th century collection; Dr. David King collection at Newport; his sale (New York, 12 May 1884, II, n. 2344); acquired by Lehigh in 1887
Northern Italy?
1268
Latin
Owned by the Carthusians of Treviso, f. 44 signed "per manum Walteri fratris Carth
This is a thirteenth-century compendium of moral and didactic writings, with a colophon dating the manuscript to 1268. The book contains a varied collection of texts, ranging from Roman Seneca in the 1st century, through the North African apologist Fulgentius in the sixth, to the near-contemporary sermons and the recent Moralitates of the learned Englishman Holcot. The manuscript is a good example of a late medieval compendium, and contains a variety of authors known all across Europe.
First leaf (penciled foliation [2]) has small illegible name in upper left, potential previous owner; "August 1818"
Multiple misnumbered/out of order foliation numbers; in the 90s, foliation is sometimes partially cut off the top of the page
Gothic--textualis quadrata
Three diagrams, with explanation, of the Arbor virtutum, the first having the Sacramentum corporis Domini nostri Jesu Christi as its trunk (ff. 56r-58v)
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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