New York University, Fragment 069 and Fragment 070
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS433
- Shelfmark:
- Fragment 069 and Fragment 070
- Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Peter Comestor
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- s. XV; 1400-1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Other decoration, ff. 1-2v: Alternating red and blue initials, usually 2-line in height, but one letter I which is –as usual—much longer.
Script, ff. 1-2v: Gothic.
Layout, ff. 1-2v: Part of the width of two columns, and part of the height of the leaf. 2 sizes of script (for the smaller, see the recto, beg. of column 2). - Former Owner(s):
- This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.
by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated). - Note:
- Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
ff. 1-2v: Leaf torn in half (?). Notes in English in a later hand.
ff. 1-2v: Fragment 069 = top of leaf: citing top of its recto on the left, hence the incipit at PL 198:1594B; Fragment 070 = bottom of leaf: citing bottom of its verso on the right, hence the explicit at PL 198:1597D. Fragment 070 recto in lower margin: PL 198:1595A, Additio 1: Sola unitas ecclesie cadit in faciem adorans. Inde est quod in profestis diebus prostrati concludimus horas...
Incipit, ff. 1-2v: et fragili, cipressini odoris folio perparvo densoque cuius cacumina in aristas se <spargunt>//.
Explicit, ff. 1-2v: //<?> iste quia alexander et pompeius et alii <leaf cropped> venerati sunt ipsum et reges persarum et egypti; hic autem homo docet sacra nostra abolenda et vana. Ergo romani scientes opes templi. - Holding Institution:
