Bryn Mawr College, MS 12

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16515

Shelfmark:

MS 12

Title:

Homeliae in johannis evangelium

Homeliae in johannis evangelium

Author:

John Chrysostom, Saint (historical Syrian archbishop, 347-407)

John Chrysostom WIKIDATA

Place:

Rome, Italy

Rome TGN

Italy TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 248; 338 x 231 mm bound to 350 x 245 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Ess, Leander van 1772-1847

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Falkner, John Meade, 1858-1932

J. Meade Falkner WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Note:

Style of binding suggests that it was bound in or for the Charterhouse of Saint Barbara, Cologne
Fols. 2-12 missing with no apparent loss of text
Binding: Fifteenth-century German binding; brown calf on boards, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern decorated with roses, fleur-de-lis, eagles; center panels decorated with small medallions depicting the mother and child on the crescent moon; two split brass fastenings on upper board with two corresponding shield-shaped fastenings on the lower board with traces of leather straps, traces of...
Layout: Single column, thirty-eight lines with vertical bounding lines usually full length in brown ink, and rulings in hardpoint or lead; prickings visible in the four corners where the bounding lines intersect with the top and bottom ruled line; written area: 205 x 120 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Scribe: Lambert Leynen (colophon, fol. 260r)
Decoration: Two seven-line decorated initials in blue and pink; three- to four-line initials alternating in red or blue throughout; headings, sentence, and paragraph markers in red; running chapter numbers in ink in center of margin, recto
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1677, no. 26.
Related resource: Marks, Richard Bruce, The Medieval Manuscript Library of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara in Cologne, Analecta Cartusiana 21-22 (Salzburg, 1974), pp. 224-25.
Provenance: Written in Rome in 1462 by Lambert Leynen, probably a cleric from the low countries (see Goldschmidt catalogue entry). The manuscript belonged to the library of the Carthusian Charterhouse of Saint Barbara in Cologne (St. Barbara's new number: O 35 on spine). Inside back cover pastedown part of a folded parchment document dated 145?, Rome. Probably in the collection of Leander van...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

biblical

Fifteenth century

Sermons

humanistic scripts

Italy

Theology

Colophons

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS12.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS12/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College