Providence Public Library, Wetmore MS 1
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS216
- Shelfmark:
- Wetmore MS 1
- Title:
- Tabula aurea
Claves sacre scripture
Bible study guide
Bible in mnemonic form
Biblical genealogies
List of Roman Emperors
Conclusiones
Incipiunt ethimologie et concordantie conclusionum per reverendissimum dominum magistrum petrum de pergamo
List of Holy Roman Emperors
Conclusiones"
Orationes itinerantium
Prayers - Peter of Bergamo
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- s. XV(ex); 1485-1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Gold-stamped calf: in each corner 2 arrows in saltire, points in base, surmounted by a heart and ensigned with a royal crown, within a base of fleur-de-lys and in the flaunches a Tudor rose; center stamp of feathers, enfiled with a crown, w/olive branches.
Figurative details, ff. 1-149v: Innumerable sketched figures that act as a rebus-like mnemonic device, with the same figure reoccuring at need.
Script, ff. 1-149v: Gothic cursive.
Layout, ff. 1-149v: Bible usually in 10 compartments to a page: 3 rectangular shapes each in upper & lower registers ; 4 in the middle register but in triangular shapes formed by a V (itself dimidiated) placed over the entire middle register. - Former Owner(s):
- Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612); Thomas Watson (1720-79), S. J.;Thomas Pennant (1726-98); by inheritance to Rudolph (1823-92), Earl of Denbigh; Denbigh sale, Christie's, 4-7-1938, lot 12 to Stonehill; Edith Wetmore (1870-1966); in 1955 to Prov.Pub.Lib.
Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612); Thomas Watson (1720-79), S. J.;Thomas Pennant (1726-98); by inheritance to Rudolph (1823-92), Earl of Denbigh; Denbigh sale, Christie's, 4-7-1938, lot 12 to Stonehill; Edith Wetmore (1870-1966); in 1955 to Prov.Pub.Lib.
Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612); Thomas Watson (1720-79), S. J.;Thomas Pennant (1726-98); by inheritance to Rudolph (1823-92), Earl of Denbigh; Denbigh sale, Christie's, 4-7-1938, lot 12 to Stonehill; Edith Wetmore (1870-1966); in 1955 to Prov.Pub.Lib.
Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612); Thomas Watson (1720-79), S. J.;Thomas Pennant (1726-98); by inheritance to Rudolph (1823-92), Earl of Denbigh; Denbigh sale, Christie's, 4-7-1938, lot 12 to Stonehill; Edith Wetmore (1870-1966); in 1955 to Prov.Pub.Lib.
Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612); Thomas Watson (1720-79), S. J.;Thomas Pennant (1726-98); by inheritance to Rudolph (1823-92), Earl of Denbigh; Denbigh sale, Christie's, 4-7-1938, lot 12 to Stonehill; Edith Wetmore (1870-1966); in 1955 to Prov.Pub.Lib.
- Note:
- Manuscript note: It is said that the book had been a gift from Elizabeth of Bohemia (1596-1662), daughter of James I of England, to her brother, Henry. Former call number: C091 B582b.
Bibliography: Susanne Rischpler, Biblia Sacra figuris expressa: Mnemotechnische Bilderbibln des 15. Jahrhunderts(Wiesbaden 2001), discussing the five known mss of this type; the Providence book is described on pp. 187-190; meanings of the symbols are on pp. 171-181.
ff. 1-149v: Foliated in modern pencil in lower right corner of recto. In the center lower margins of ff. 7, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 64, 76 are red roman numerals (I - VIII) that may be quire numbers.
ff. 1-149v: Latin.
ff. i-iii verso + 1-3; ff. 3v-5v blank: Doctoris angelici divi Thomæ Aquinatis Opera omniaed. By Stanislas Edouard Frette' and Paul Mare' (Paris, 1871-1880) vols. 34-35; here copied sparsim throughout the book, and to be read in this order: ff. 130-138v, 119-128v, 1-3, 140-147v, 129.
f. 6: Text is divided into seven points, and is complete on this page.
ff. 6v-7: Groupings of the O.T. books of the bible into Legal, Historical, Sapiential, Prophetic; then the N.T. in the Gospels, the Catholic Epistles, the Pauline Epistles (this list carried forward by a tie mark, "f," from the lower verso to the recto).
ff. 87-100: This text also in Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 505, ff. 3-11v, containing the series of O.T. patriarchs from Adam to Christ. Each genealogical line follows a specific colored line: red, blue, light purple and so on.
Incipit, ff. 87-100: ascensionis et pentecosten.
Explicit, ff. 87-100: Considerans sacre historie prolixitatem.
ff. 100-110v: Sequence of Roman emperors and German and Bohemian kings along a green line, beginning with Claudius and ending with Frederick III of Hapsburg who reigned 1452-1493; his accession date provides a possible terminus post quem for the copying of the ms.
f. 111v; ff. 112-116v blank: Sketch of two heads, possibly later in date, on otherwise blank leaves.
ff. 117-118v: Materials relevant to the Dominicans for preaching. The Conclusionesare copied at two points throughout the book and should be read ff. 117-118v, 148r.
ff. 119-128v: Doctoris angelici divi Thomæ Aquinatis Opera omniaed. By Stanislas Edouard Frette' and Paul Mare' (Paris, 1871-1880) vols. 34-35; here copied sparsim throughout the book, and to be read in this order: ff. 130-138v, 119-128v, 1-3, 140-147v, 129.
f. 129r-v: Doctoris angelici divi Thomæ Aquinatis Opera omniaed. By Stanislas Edouard Frette' and Paul Mare' (Paris, 1871-1880) vols. 34-35; here copied sparsim throughout the book, and to be read in this order: ff. 130-138v, 119-128v, 1-3, 140-147v, 129.
ff. 130-138v: Doctoris angelici divi Thomæ Aquinatis Opera omniaed. By Stanislas Edouard Frette' and Paul Mare' (Paris, 1871-1880) vols. 34-35; here copied sparsim throughout the book, and to be read in this order: ff. 130-138v, 119-128v, 1-3, 140-147v, 129.
f. 139v: S. Rischpler suggests that this list was added to the book while in the possession of Henry, Prince of Wales (d. 1612), although the hand does not look English, and the list only need have been added after the accession of Rudolph II in 1576.
ff. 140-147v: Doctoris angelici divi Thomæ Aquinatis Opera omniaed. By Stanislas Edouard Frette' and Paul Mare' (Paris, 1871-1880) vols. 34-35; here copied sparsim throughout the book, and to be read in this order: ff. 130-138v, 119-128v, 1-3, 140-147v, 129.
f. 148; f. 148v blank: Materials relevant to the Dominicans for preaching. The Conclusionesare copied at two points throughout the book and should be read ff. 117-118v, 148r.
f. 149; f. 149v blank: Prayers based on the psalm, Levavi oculos meos. - IIIF Manifest:
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