Wellesley College, P946

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12777

Shelfmark:

P946

Title:

De vita solitaria /

Author:

Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072

Peter Damian WIKIDATA

Place:

Northern France or Flanders

Northern France TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 95 (of 96) leaves : parchment ; 198 x 140 (138 x 95) mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment. 1-118, 128−1, lacking one folio after fol. "91" (not 2 folios as in de Ricci and Jackson). Signed a - m. Catchwords preserved. Seventeenth-century foliations skips [90], but preceded folio loss, so reaches "93" at fol. 91. Modern pencil foliation is correct.
Decoration: Three 6-line initials in blue and red with red and purple infill and filigree into margin, chapters begin with 2-line red initials.
Layout: 1 column, 29 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in brown plummet, first and last lines ruled double, prickings preserved.
Origin: Written in Northern France or Flanders at the beginning of the fifteenth century. According to de Ricci, believed to have come from the monastery of Marienmunster. Belonged ca. 1600 to Henning.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Marginal rubrics are black, in-text are red.
Leander von Ess collection, Darmstadt, sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, his n. 429 with Middle Hill stamp on front flyleaf; his sale (London, 1910, n. 655) to Edwards.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Solitude

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626431

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/33362/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College