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Metadata

DS ID:

DS115

Shelfmark:

LJS 101

Title:

Periermenias Aristotelis ... [etc.

Periermenias

Author:

Boethius, -524

Boethius WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

850?

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 64 leaves : parchment ; 204-206 x 172-174 (136-148 x 100-128) mm bound to 219 x 190 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Beck, Helmut, 1919-2001

Helmut Beck WIKIDATA

Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Abbey)

Fleury Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1v).
Collation: Parchment, i (19th-century paper) + i (19th-century parchment) + 64 + i (19th-century parchment) + i (19th-century paper); 14 24(+4) 3-88 94; 1-64, 19th-century foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 (f. 5-36), 23 (f. 1-4, 45-64), and 27 (f. 37-44) long lines, with the first line above the top line; ruled in drypoint, with a narrow vertical column at each side of the text block into which initials extend in part or in whole; prickings visible on most leaves.
Script: Written in a 9th-century Caroline minuscule, with replacement leaves in 11th-century Caroline minuscule at beginning (f. 1-4) and end (f. 45-64), with headings in rustic Latin capitals.
Decoration: 5 9th-century diagrams, 3 in the ink of the text (f. 37v, 54v) and 2 with colored inks added in the 11th century (f. 36r, 36v); 11th-century full-page decorated initial with Celtic knotwork and lions' heads (f. 1v); 2 11th-century 3-line initials in red and blue (f. 2r, 60v); 11th-century red and blue ink added to 9th-century 3-line initial (f. 5r); 1- and 2-line initials, mostly...
Binding: 19th-century English diced russia leather (lower flyleaf has J. Whatman 1832 watermark), bound for Sir Thomas Phillips.
Origin: Written in north central France, possibly at the abbey in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, also known as the Abbaye de Fleury.
Sold by bookseller James Taylor (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ca. 1826.
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2179 (stamped crest inside upper cover; inscription with alternate number 717, f. 1r; label on spine).
Sold as part of the residue of the Phillips collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.
Sold by H. P. Kraus to Helmut Beck (Stuttgart), ms. 3 (embossed label, inside upper cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Beck Collection, 16 June 1997, lot 3, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg in honor of Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania, 2014.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

diagrams

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

Specimens

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin

Eleventh century

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Manuscripts, Medieval

Ninth century

translations (documents)

Aristotle

Criticism and interpretation

Logic

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Carolingian

De interpretatione (Aristotle)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9951865503503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania