General Theological Seminary, 03 Western

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS328

Shelfmark:

03 Western

Title:

Epistles

Author:

Jerome

Jerome WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

s. XV; 1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Half bound in calf over pasteboard with the author and title written in ink on the fore edge.
Script, ff. 1-180v: Cursive.
Layout, ff. 1-180v: 2 columns of 54 lines; ruling very difficult to see, but at least the frame is in some form of drypoint (see f. i).

Former Owner(s):

Leander van Ess; Sir Thomas Phillipps, his n. 589 (from "591" as first inscribed on the pastedown). On f. i, bookseller slip of the firm of Bull and Auvache, 34 & 35 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, W. C., London, Cat. 358 (October 1911).

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Note:

ff. 1-180v: Contemporary foliation in arabic numerals in the center of the upper recto margin.
ff. 1-180v: Latin.
ff. i + 1-180v: On f. i, "Incipiunt capitula in epistolari beati Iheronimi prespiteri" with chapter list on f. 1r-v. On ff. 1v-2, the first letter is that of Pope Damasus to Jerome, "Dormientem te et longo iam tempore legentem potius quam scribentem questiunculis ad te missis excitare disposui . . ." The final leaves, ff. 177v-180v, in a more cursive and cramped script but with the same...
Incipit, ff. i + 1-180v: et animos semper malum conscientie formidantes, cereos accendisse sit gratum.
Explicit, ff. i + 1-180v: Postquam epistolam tue sanctitatis accepi confestim accito notario.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/03Western_23

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_03Western_23/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

General Theological Seminary