University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 686

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1590

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 686

Title:

Abbreviation of Peter of Tarentaise's commentary on Peter Lombard's Sententiarum, libri IV.

Author:

Rothwell, William de

William Rothwell WIKIDATA

Place:

France or Germany

France TGN

Date:

[between 1270 and 1280]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 139 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 167 x 122 (127 x 91) mm bound to 170 x 125 mm

Former Owner(s):

Lyell, James P. R. 1871-1948

James Lyell WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script by two hands with annotations on the final folio and prayer on the front pastedown in later hands.
Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: [1-23], I-LXXII, LXXIIII-CXVI, [139]; contemporary foliation in red and blue Roman numerals, upper center verso; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; framed catchwords at the end of gatherings beginning on f. 47v.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 33-34 lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Rubricated throughout, alternating use of blue and red; 3-line penwork initials in red and blue (f. 24r, 68r, 106r).
Binding: Contemporary pigskin, dyed red, over boards, with remnants of two clasps and leather strap on upper cover.
Origin: Written in northern France or southern Germany, possibly in the southeastern Low Countries (Emery).
Incipit: Queritur utrum theologia sit scientia (f. 1r).
Prayer or invocation on inside upper cover lists names of angels and demons beginning, Lamech, Salmalaach, Helmahn...
Date in a later hand: In die dorothe lxij [1362] (f. 139r).
Colophon in a later (14th-15th century?) hand: Explicit excerptum Magistri petri de tarantasia super quator libros sententiarum Qui postea fuit Magister ordinis electusque est in summum pontificem (f. 139r).
Formerly owned by Jacobus P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Dominicans--Prayers and devotions--Latin

Early works

Theology, Doctrinal

Prayers and devotions

Dominicans

Sententiarum libri IV (Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3959c86z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania