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Six conjugate folios from Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians (Nam gloria nostra ... nos credimus, 2 Corinthians 1.12-4.13), with glosses from Peter Lombard's Collectanea, also referred to as the Magna glossatura.
Support: parchment; Extent: 6 leaves : 352 x 256 (242 x 150) mm bound to 361 x 265 mm; Collation: Parchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 1⁶; 103-108, modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Written in 2 columns of 55 lines of gloss (main text, where present, written in a larger script on alternate lines spanning half a column), with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Written in a Gothic book script, in a larger size for main text and a smaller size for the gloss.
Running title S[e]c[un]da ad Co[rinthios] in red and blue; numerous 1- to 4-line initials alternating in red and blue ink with contrasting penwork flourishes that extend into the left margins; lemmas in gloss underlined in red.
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no 95; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; Bloomsbury, 6 July 2017, lot 10; 2 July 2019, lot 13 and 6 July 2021, lot 41; Christie's, 14 December 2022, lot 4. A bifolium with two large gold initial 'P's is in the Scheetz collection (S. Gwara, Bibliotheca Scheetziana, 2014, no 17, pp. 109-18.
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.
Paris
Written in northern France, probably Paris, ca. 1210 (King Alfred's Notebook).
Modern half calf with marbled paper (Benson's Hand Bindery, Columbia, S.C.).
Latin
Parent manuscript has been described as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf (Christie's).
Parent manuscript offered for sale at auction at Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus F. Zisska & R. Kistner (Munich), 3 May 1988, lot 1 (Christie's).
Parent manuscript formerly held in the Schøyen Collection, MS 124 (Christie's).
Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 82, to Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Markkleeberg, Germany); manuscript disbound and gathering sold by Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Scott Gwara).
Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), 2011.
Paris
Written in northern France, probably Paris, ca. 1210 (King Alfred's Notebook).
Latin
Parent manuscript has been described as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf
Parent manuscript offered for sale at auction at Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus F. Zisska & R. Kistner
Parent manuscript formerly held in the Schøyen Collection, MS 124
Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 82, to Antiquariat Neumann-Walter
Sold by King Alfred's Notebook
Six conjugate folios from Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians (Nam gloria nostra ... nos credimus, 2 Corinthians 1.12-4.13), with glosses from Peter Lombard's Collectanea, also referred to as the Magna glossatura.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no 95; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; Bloomsbury, 6 July 2017, lot 10; 2 July 2019, lot 13 and 6 July 2021, lot 41; Christie's, 14 December 2022, lot 4. A bifolium with two large gold initial 'P's is in the Scheetz collection (S. Gwara, Bibliotheca Scheetziana, 2014, no 17, pp. 109-18.
Written in a Gothic book script, in a larger size for main text and a smaller size for the gloss.
Running title S[e]c[un]da ad Co[rinthios] in red and blue; numerous 1- to 4-line initials alternating in red and blue ink with contrasting penwork flourishes that extend into the left margins; lemmas in gloss underlined 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.
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