Bryn Mawr College, MS 18
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16521
- Shelfmark:
- MS 18
- Title:
- Canticum canticorum, with glossa ordinaria
- Peter, of Limoges, -1306
de Lucedio, Ogerius
Publilius, Syrus, active 1st century B.C.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Pseudo-Seneca
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
Pseudo-Bernardus
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- 1100-1299
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+188+ii; 163 x 120 mm bound to 176 x 138 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Newcastle, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of, 1785-1851
Wynham, William
Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
Gordon, John Dozier
- Note:
- Previously Goodhart 66
Text begins on fol. 2 with no apparent loss of text
Parchment brittle and discolored on fols. 125-161
Badly faded ink on parchment that is yellowed and in poor condition making text difficult to read on fols. 178-185
Flyleaves from earlier bindings containing unidentified text on fols. 2-5 and 185-187
Text ending incompletely on fol. 177
Multiple scripts: English proto-gothic book script, the gloss written about half the size as the canticle (fols. 7-43); English cursive script (fols. 44-102); English cursive script, multiple hands (fols. 103-124); English proto-gothic book script (fols. 125-161); English cursive script (fols. 162-177); English book hand (fols. 178-184)
Musical notation (a single stave) on fol. 187
Binding: Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco, embossed with blind stamping, gold tooled arms of the fourth Duke of Newcastle on cover; on spine: "TRACTATUS/ VARII./ MS."
Layout: Layout varies by section: Fols. 7-43: three columns, each ca. thirty-one lines; ruled in black ink with single vertical bounding lines for each column, full length; remains of prickings in margin; Fols. 44-102: two columns, thirty-one lines with single vertical bounding lines and double horizontal bounding lines, full length, with an additional set of double bounding lines in top...
Layout: Fols. 44-102: two columns, thirty-one lines with single vertical bounding lines and double horizontal bounding lines, full length, with an additional set of double bounding lines in top margin above text on recto, all in ink
Layout: Fols. 103-124: Single column, thirty-two to thirty-six lines with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines full across in lead; remains of pricking in margins
Layout: Fols. 125-161: Single column, twenty-four to twenty-seven lines with single vertical bounding lines full length, in ink
Layout: Fol. 162-177: Single column, twenty-seven to twenty-nine lines, ruled in lead with vertical and horizontal bounding lines full length
Layout: Fols. 178-184: single column, thirty-two to thirty-eight lines with vertical bounding lines full length; text is crowded on page and often disregards bounding lines
Script: Protogothic
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Script: Secretary
Decoration: Decoration varies in sections: Fols. 7-43: one illuminated six-line initial, gold on a blue rectangular ground, several two-line initials in red or green ink throughout; Fols. 44-102: one six-line red and blue initial at beginning of text with penwork extensions; three- and two-line red or blue initials with contrasting blue or red penwork flourishes and extensions throughout; red...
Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 435, n. 18.
Related resource: Glossa ordinaria; Repertorium biblicum medii aevi, Stegmüller, v. 9, no 11804; PL 113, 1128-68.
Related resource: Newhauser,Richard, "Inter scientiam et populum: Roger Bacon, Peter of Limoges, and the 'Tractatus moralis de oculo,'" in: J.A. Aertsen, K. Emery, Jr., and A. Speer, eds., Nach der Verurteilung von 1277.
Related resource: Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts. Studien und Texte / After the Condemnations of 1277. Philosophy and Theology at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century. Studies and Texts, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 28 (Berlin, New York, 2001), pp. 682-703.
Related resource: Penco, G., "Ogerio di Lucedio e il Planctus Mariae," Benedictina 16 (1969) 126-128.
Related resource: Capelleno, M., "Codici delle opere del beato Ogerio di Lucedio," Bolletino storico vercellese 18 (1982) 177-183.
Related resource: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae; ed. William Meyer (Leipzig, 1880).
Related resource: Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii, Charles Hosius, ed. (Leipzig, 1914).
Related resource: Ps.-Seneca, Ad Gallionem de remediis fortuitorum liber. L. Annaei Senecae opera quae supersunt supplementum, Friedrich Haase, ed. (Liepsig, 1902) 44-55.
Related resource: Johannes Chrysostomus, De Reparatione Lapsi (Cologne, 1469); German Books Before 1601, microfilm roll 437, item 3.
Related resource: Ps-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes de interiori homine (Augsburg, c. 1475).
Related resource: Hugonis de S. Victore, Expositio in Regulam Beati Augustini, PL 176, 881-924.
Provenance: Written in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and bound together no later than the 14th C. On recto of fol. 6 a table of contents corresponding to the present text and ownership note: "liber Will. Wynham/ Wintoniensis MCCClij"; on fol. 186v: "William Wynham." The arms on the cover suggest that it was in the possession of the fourth Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS18.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS18/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
