Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ... missam ex[emplum?] ... Collation: Parchment, fol. 104 ; 110 212 3-610 7-812 94 108 116−2+2 (2 stubs (cancels)) after fol. 103, final two leaves tipped-in singletons) ; catchwords in lower right corner of final verso of each corner in a decorative frame. 16th-/17th-century arabic foliation in black ink, upper right corner of each recto. Modern arabic pencil foliation added to versos, with "r" added to early numbers... Layout: Two columns, 42 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in light plummet. Script: Written in a rounded gothic textualis in brown ink with red rubrics. Decoration: Two-line red epigraphic capitals throughout. Full-page Arbor consanguinitatis on fol. 1v in brown ink on panels of red, blue and green, head of Christ visible at top, his hands supporting the tree at its base, human figures in each corner, tipped-in but original, now held in place at inner front binding by the mid-11th-century pastedown. Binding: 15th-century deerskin(?) over boards, blind-fillet border on covers, clasps intact, parchment label on upper cover reads "Summa Raymundi," several old labels on spine, one (17th-century) reads "M. Memb./ I.iii." 11th-century pastedown to inner front cover, a two-column sermon combining Caesarius of Arles, Sermon 144 (Ch. 2, Neminem - evasit (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina... Origin: Written in Germany, possibly Nuremberg, in the mid-14th century. Provenance: The Chinot catalogue of 1849 attributes the manuscript to one "Wisinto of Nuremberg," although there is no extant evidence to support this assertion. It is possible that the effaced inscription in the upper margin of f. 2, not legible under ultra-violet light, is the inscription apparently quoted by Chinot: "Summa magistri Raimundi, quam scripsit Wisinto nurembergensis" (Chinot, p... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs in 1954. Call number: MS f Med.134. Former call number: MS 1558. Bibliography: A. Erikson, Sancti Epiphanii Episcopi Interpretatio Evangeliorum (London, 1939); D.G. Morin, Sancti Caesarii Arelatensis Sermones (CCSL CIV) (Turnholt, 1953)
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