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Text of treatise De spiritu et anima (f. 1r-56v), erroneously attributed to St. Augustine. This appears to be identical to the treatise De anima et spiritu by an Alcherus of Clairvaux. Also includes an unidentified theological text, erroneously identified in the manuscript as St. Augustine's Soliloquia (f. 56v). There is a table of contents for this work on f. 56v-57v.
Support: parchment; Extent: 146 leaves : 163 x 110 (107 x 61) mm. bound to 174 x 116 mm; Collation: i (contemporary parchment) + 144 + i (contemporary parchment); 1-6⁸, 7-9¹⁰, 10⁸, 11-16¹⁰; [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.
Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand. Scribe identifies himself as Gaspar on f. 56v and 143v.
Illuminated initials in gold, blue, green, red and white (f. 1r, 58r); marginalia and section headings in red.
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Ms. codex.
Title and attribution to St. Augustine (Divus Augustus) taken from inside front flyleaf and from spine.
Incipit (1st work): Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum ... (f. 1r).
Explicit (1st work): ... aliud non sit quae ratio. (f. 56v). This explicit is characteristic of Norpoth's "Type I" of the text (Norpoth, p. 7). Contains chapters 1-33 only (out of 65).
Incipit (2nd work): Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus ... (f. 58r).
Explicit (2nd work): ... omnis beatitudo: omnis clementia sit deo patri et spiritui sancto. amen. (f. 143v).
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.
Italy
Written in Italy 13 September, 1463 (f. 143v)
15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; rebacked in the 19th century; joints worn with red rot.
Latin
Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's to Henry Drury, 26 Feb. 1821, lot 37.
Sold by Drury at auction at R. H. Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, lot 270.
Sold by William Allen, 1955.
Italy
Written in Italy 13 September, 1463 (f. 143v)
Latin
Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's to Henry Drury, 26 Feb. 1821, lot 37.
Sold by Drury at auction at R. H. Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, lot 270.
Sold by William Allen, 1955.
Text of treatise De spiritu et anima (f. 1r-56v), erroneously attributed to St. Augustine. This appears to be identical to the treatise De anima et spiritu by an Alcherus of Clairvaux. Also includes an unidentified theological text, erroneously identified in the manuscript as St. Augustine's Soliloquia (f. 56v). There is a table of contents for this work on f. 56v-57v.
Ms. codex.
Title and attribution to St. Augustine (Divus Augustus) taken from inside front flyleaf and from spine.
Incipit (1st work): Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum ... (f. 1r).
Explicit (1st work): ... aliud non sit quae ratio. (f. 56v). This explicit is characteristic of Norpoth's "Type I" of the text (Norpoth, p. 7). Contains chapters 1-33 only (out of 65).
Incipit (2nd work): Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus ... (f. 58r).
Explicit (2nd work): ... omnis beatitudo: omnis clementia sit deo patri et spiritui sancto. amen. (f. 143v).
Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand. Scribe identifies himself as Gaspar on f. 56v and 143v.
Illuminated initials in gold, blue, green, red and white (f. 1r, 58r); marginalia and section headings in red.
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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