Boston Public Library, MS q Med.142
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3475
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.142
- Title:
- Compendium theologicae veritatis
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1300 and 1350].
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 148 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 248 x 187 (155 x 125) mm bound to 25 cm, boxed to 28 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hoepli (Firm : Milan, Italy)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: De ira.
Collation: Manuscript 1: parchment 1-88 98−4 (lacking four leaves between fol. 66-67) 10-118 1210+3 (fol. 85-87 tipped-in singletons) ; catchwords in lower center margin, final verso of each quire. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page, post-dates losses and conflation. Manuscript 2: 13-1410 158 166−2 (lacking two leaves after fol. 128) 178−1 (lacking one leaf after...
Layout: Manuscript 1: Two columns (each 55 mm wide), 30 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. Prickings extant in lower margin for bounding lines only. Manuscript 2: Two columns (each 56 mm wide), 29 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. Prickings extant in lower margin for bounding lines, outer margin for writing lines.
Script: Manuscript 1: Written in an early southern textualis libraria by a single scribe, in black ink with red rubrics (fol. 1-11v only). Manuscript 2: Written in early southern textualis libraria, by various scribes, in black ink with red rubrics. Two-line red or blue initials throughout (historiated initials in Manuscript 1 only).
Decoration: Manuscript 1: Three-line initials in blue with red filigree or red with green throughout ; five nine- to eleven-line historiated initials, one at the beginning of each book (with the exception of Book I), with floriate borders in blue and gold ink. Fol. 3v (Prologue): Christ enthroned, with cruciform nimbus; two medallions in the lower margin, each populated by a young man...
Binding: Italian vellum over pasteboard from the second half of the 16th century, title handwritten on spine in a humanistic cursive, "Compendium theologiae sancti thomae"; paper pastedowns at front and back with anchor watermark similar to Briquet 478-496, also from the second half of the sixteenth century; housed in custom beige cloth clamshell, title gilt on black leather labels on spine...
Origin: Both manuscripts were written in Italy, the first (fol. 1-87) in the first half of the 14th century, and the second (fol. 88-148) mid-century.
Provenance: Original arms expunged on fol. 24v, 53v and 68. A 15th-century hand attributes the text to Thomas Aquinas on fol. 1. The two manuscripts were bound together by the sixteenth century, the date of their present binding.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1955 from Libreria Antiquaria, Hoepli, Milan (cat. for 1954, no. 1)
Call number: MS q Med.142.
Former call number: MS 1567.
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly IX (1957): 62; L. Pfleger, "Der Dominikaner Hugo von Strassburg und das Compendium theologicae veritatis," Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 28 (1904): 429-440. T. Kaeppeli, O.P. Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, Vol. II, G-I (Rome, 1975), 261-269; M.W. Boomfield, Incipits of Latins Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444811
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/63962p30c/manifest
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