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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3334

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.15

Title:

Libellus cuiusda[m] ignoti auctoris de anima cont[ra] que[n] Claudianus trib[us] seq[uen]tib[us] libris disputat Claudiam De statu anime.

Author:

Claudianus Mamertus, -approximately 474

Claudianus Mamertus WIKIDATA

Place:

Tournai]

Tournai TGN

Date:

between 1100 and 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 39 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 308 x 215 (233 x 150) mm bound to 32 cm, in box 34 cm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Tournai (Tournai, Belgium)

Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Tournai WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Collective title from opening rubrics (1v and 4v).
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: tione substantiae tenetur.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 39 + ii (modern parchment) ; 16 210 36 410 56+1 (final leaf is a tipped-in singleton) ; modern arabic pencil foliation on each page (1, 1v. etc.).
Layout: One column, 36 lines; ruled in blind; pricking in outer margins.
Script: Written in a romanesque script in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two-line red epigraphic capitals throughout; seven-line initial in red, fol. 3r; eight-line initial in red with white spaces, fol. 1v; 8-line red initial with incorporated bird, fol. 32r; 9-line red and green initial with red and green flora into margin with two birds incorporated, fol. 4v; faint 12th-century sketch of human head, lower margin of fol. 20r; geometric diagrams, fol. 18v.
Binding: Ca. late 19th-century brown calf over boards by Larriviere (signed on spine). Brown marbled pastedowns and conjugate flyleaf, followed by vellum flyleaf, at front and back. Probably bound for Barrois, who owned at least two other manuscripts in Larriviere bindings (New York City, Columbia Univ. Plimpton MS 43, and Baltimore, Walters Art Museum W. 445).
Origin: Written at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin in Tournai in the early twelfth century. This appears to be nr. 124 in the twelfth-century St. Martin catalogue; see Delisle I:491, where it is described as "Claudianus de anima in uno volume." 13th-century St. Martin ex libris on fol. 39v: "Liber sancti martini tornacensis servanti benedictio amen." In 1609, the manuscript was studied in...
Provenance 1: The manuscript was still in the Tournai library when the catalogue of 1614 was published, in which it is clearly described as "Claudiani Mamerci Viennensium Galliae Episcopi de statu Animae Libri 3 longe meliores quam typis per excusi Parisiis, in Biblotheca SS. Patrum Margarini, in qua editione multa & omissa & corrupta sunt quare merito hic codex caute sevandus. Hunc contulit...
Provenance 2: Engelbrecht suggests that this may be the Tournai copy of Mamertus purchased from the abbey by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1824. Later owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), who apparently had it rebound by Larriviere, who also bound at least two other Barrois manuscripts; Barrois' 1849 sale (n. 97) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878). Consult...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased on behalf of the Boston Public Library by Sydney Cockerell from the Ashburnham sale of June 10, 1901 (lot 196) (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
Call number: MS f Med.15.
Former call number: MS G.31.66.
Bibliography: A. Engelbrecht, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna, 1885), XI:vi; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928), 62; A. Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta, 1641 (repr. 1972), 115, nr. 27; J.A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae (1734), I:1075.

Keyword:

Signed bindings

Inscriptions

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Manuscripts, Medieval

Belgium

Protogothic

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Autographs

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444667

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https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98qh782/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library