University of Kansas, MS C195
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1145
- Shelfmark:
- MS C195
- Title:
- Librum aurore /
- Peter Riga, approximately 1140-1209
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- [between 1191 and 1210]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 233 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 230 x 145 (165-170 x 75) mm bound to 240 x 150 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Chartreuse de Montrieux
- Note:
- Title from opening rubric of the preface on folio 3r: "Incipit prologus magistri Petri Riga in librum aurore."
Manuscript codex
Collation: i (paper, pastedown) + 233 (parchment) + ii (paper, ii is pastedown): 1⁴ + 2⁴ (wants 1 and 2) + 3⁴ + 4⁸ (2 and 7 are singletons) + 5⁸ (2 and 7 are singletons) + 6¹⁰ (3 and 8 are singletons) + 7⁸ (3 and 6 are singletons) + 8⁸ (2 and 7 are singletons) + 9⁸ + 10¹⁰ +11¹² + 1 leaf after 10 + 12⁸ + 1 leaf after 3 + 13-14⁸ + 15⁶ + 1 leaf after 1 + 16⁸ + 17⁸ (5 and 7 are singletons) + 18⁸...
Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil in lower right corner (1-233).
Signatures: Quires signed in ink at center on the verso of last folio of the following gatherings by the scribe: quires 4-6 signed b-d; quires 8-22 signed f-i, k-t, v; quires 24-26 signed x-z; quire 27 signed an unidentified sign.
Layout: Written in 31-35 long lines (until 70v), in 41-42 long lines (between 71r-139v), in 30-36 long lines (from 140r), above top line. Ruled in lead, with full-length double vertical and quadruple horizontal bounding lines, occasionally with full-length double vertical and double or triple horizontal bounding lines. Pricking marks visible on upper, lower and fore-edge margins of most leaves.
Script: Written by a single hand in southern Gothica textualis.
Decoration: 11-line anthropomorphic initial O in red, green, tan, white and black, depicting Peter Riga, at the beginning of Preface on folio 3r; 7-line anthropomorphic initial V in red, yellow, tan and black at the beginning of "Liber Leviticus" on folio 56r; full-page initial P with interlaced strapwork in red, white, yellow and tan at the beginning of "Evangelium" on folio 137r; 6- to...
Binding: Early modern. Bound in full leather dyed light brown over paper boards. Blind-tooling on front and back cover. All three edges of the bookblock are sprinkled red. Binding is worn, especially damaged around the corners and along the spine.
Origin: Probably written in southern France or Spain around 1200.
Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS C195
In good condition despite missing leaves. Major imperfections on parchment, including holes and knife wounds as well as yellowing. The quality and thickness of the parchment varies throughout the manuscript. Several leaves are repurposed and palimpsest, with remnants of earlier texts partly visible on folios 64, 65, 66, 67. Evidence of sewn tabs along the fore-edge, corresponding to the...
The copy of the Aurora by Peter Riga in this manuscript is the so-called third edition of the work except that it does not contain the book titled "Recapitulationes" according to the modern edition (Aurora. Petri Rigae Biblia versificata: A Verse Commentary on the Bible. Ed. Paul. E. Beichner. Publications in Mediaeval Studies 19. 2 vols. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965...
The first two leaves of the original second gathering (now the third quire) were dismembered and are missing; its last two leaves were misbound (now the second quire). The correct order of the folios for the first book of the Aurora (the "Liber Genesis") are as follows: folios 7r-10v ("[incipit] Si firmo sensu sc[ri]pta notare velis ... [explicit] Scia q[ui]ppe noce[n]t anim[a]e p[ro]dest...
The manuscript comes from the library of the Charterhouse of Notre-Dame de Montrieux (Chartreuse de Montrieux) in Méounes-les-Montrieux, France according to a note in a modern hand on paper with a printed letterhead "Ministère de la Guerre" pasted over the front pastedown: "Ce manuscrit qui faisait partie de la bibliothéque de l'ancienne Chartreuse de Montrieux (Monsrivus) dans le... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1n9tuvc/KU_VOYAGER2959516
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MSC195_30/manifest.json
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