University of Kansas, MS B18
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1180
- Shelfmark:
- MS B18
- Title:
- Abbreviatio Summae Guillelmi Altissiodorensis /
- Herbertus, Altissiodorensis, -approximately 1252
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- [between 1251-1300]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 198 leaves : parchment ; 178 x 131 (130 x 88) mm bound to 193 x 142 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Chartreuse du Val de bénédiction
- Note:
- Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript codex
Collation: ii (parchment, reused, i is pastedown) + 198 (parchment) + ii (parchment, reused, ii is pastedown): 1¹⁶ + 2¹⁸ + 3¹⁶ + 1 leaf after 16 + 4-5⁸ + 6-13¹⁶ + 14⁴ (wants 4).
Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil in upper right corner (1-85, 85a, 86-197).
Signatures: Quires signed A-I, K-O in pencil in lower right corner on the recto side of leaves by Alexandra Mason, March 1963.
Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower right corner on folios 16v, 34v, 50v, 59v, 67v, 83v, 98v, 114v, 130v, 146v, 162v, 194v.
Layout: Written in 35 long lines, above top line (except for folio 1r). Ruled in lead, with full-length vertical and horizontal bounding lines. Pricking marks visible on the outer margins of most leaves.
Script: Written by a single hand in Gothica Textualis Currens.
Decoration: 2- to 20-line initials in plain red with penwork in red; rubrics in two shades of red by two different hands; sentence initials highlighted in red; paragraph marks in red. Guide letters visible to the left of initials throughout; most guide rubrics visible in outer margins throughout.
Music: Front pastedown and flyleaf as well as back pastedown and flyleaf contain square notation on four-line staff in red.
Binding: Modern. Reversed leather dyed dark brown with a purple hue over paper boards. Four false raised bands. Evidence of a paper label adhered to the tail of spine.
Origin: Probably written in France in the second half of the thirteenth century.
Former shelfmark: MS Y125
Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS B18
Abbreviatio summae Guillelmi Altissiodorensis by Herbert of Auxerre is thought to be based on Summa aurea by Guillermus of Auxerre, which was in turn based on Sententiarum libri IV by Peter Lombard. There is no modern edition of the Abbreviatio summae Guillelmi Altissiodorensis. A comparison of the text contained in MS B18 with those of other known manuscripts leads to the conclusion that only...
The endleaves of MS B18 are made up of repurposed parchment leaves, possibly two consecutive leaves from the same manuscript, likely a breviary, probably dated to the fifteenth century: a folio cut to size and folded in half is used for the front pastedown and flyleaf and another for the back flyleaf and pastedown. Both leaves contain chants, most of which are associated with the Christian...
In good condition despite missing and damaged leaves. Lower margins of folios 2 and 175 excised, with no loss of text. Major imperfections on parchment and signs of early repairs, some of which are probably from when the parchment was prepared and some of which are by sewing. Leaves are of uneven sizes, with many leaves untrimmed and edges of skins present, especially on the fore-edge and the...
The manuscript comes from the library of the Charterhouse of Notre-Dame-du-Val-de-Bénédiction in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France (Chartreuse du Val de bénédiction). Two late medieval ownership inscriptions in ink: "Iste liber e[st] vallis b[e]n[e]dicc[i]o[n]is de villa nova ordinis Cartusien[sis] p[ro]pe Avinionem" in the lower margin on folio 71r and "Vallis benediccionis ord[in]is... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1n9tuvc/KU_VOYAGER2961259
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MSB18_30/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
