Princeton University, Garrett MS. 64.
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2212
- Shelfmark:
- Garrett MS. 64.
- Title:
- Sermones Sancti Augustini Episcopi.
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1100-1150
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 106 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 193 x 115 (125-132 x 80) mm bound to 200 x 124 mm.
- Note:
- Incipit: “Sermones Sancti Augustini Episcopi. de caritate in epistola beati johannis euangeliste ab eo quod scriptum est: quod fuit ab initio usque id, qui odit fratrem suum in tenebris ambulat, et nescit quo eat? quoniam tenebre excecauerunt oculos eius…”
Explicit: “Quis me amauit et ad me non peruenit?”
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 2b).
An entire quire is missing between quires 11 and 12.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. 106 ; quires numbered on verse of final leaf using black dots ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Incipit and section headings in alternate lines of red and green ; capitals stroked in red.
Decoration: Sermons open with an 8- to 10-line foliate Romanesque pen-drawn initial in brown ink, uncolored (fols. 28r, 39v, 50r, 61r, 89r, and 102r); beasts included within initials on fols. 50r and 61r; Sermon 1 opens with a 3-line parti-colored initial in red and green on fol. 3r.
Origin: Probably from Alsace, possibly the Metz area.
Unknown early provenance. 17th century owned by the Jesuit College at Metz. In the 18th century may have been taken to China, or at least was marked by a missionary to China since it has two different Chinese ownership seals. Bernard Quaritch offered it for sale in 1910. Sold 1912 by Sotheby's, London to J.&J. Leighton. An unidentified American sale catalogue description formerly pasted on the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113070293506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/90d78519-2294-4224-9014-b27e01718236/manifest
- Holding Institution:
