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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3514

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.260

Title:

De institutione religiosorum

De institutione religiosorum

Author:

Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271

William Perault WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy?

Italy TGN

Date:

1380.

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 144 leaves : parchment ; 193 x 132 (137 x 88) mm

Former Owner(s):

Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860

Theodore Parker WIKIDATA

Note:

Author's name from Steiner, A. Guillaume Perrault and Vincent of Beauvais. Speculum, vol. 8, no. 1 (Jan., 1933) pp. 51-58. Sometimes attributed Humbert of Romans, Vincent of Beauvais, or Thomas Aquinas.
Title from incipit (fol. [5]): Incipit prologus in librum De institutiones religiosorum qui dicitur erudire Ierusalem.
Date from colophon on fol. Cxxxvii verso; place of production based on analysis of script.
Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Secundo folio: Ista su[n]t capitula huius operis infra scripti diuisi i[n] sex partes qua[rum] viz ...
Collation: parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 144 (foliated [5], i-Cxxxvii, [2]) + iii (modern paper) ; I4 II-XIV8 XV10 XVI8 XVII10 XVIII8 ; horizontal catchwords in brown or red ink frames in lower margin of final versos of each gathering. Contemporary roman foliation in red ink, upper outer corner of each leaf, from II2-XVIII6, thus reaching Cxxxvii, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Two columns, 31 lines below the top line. Bounding and ruling lines in blind and light brown ink. Pricking in outer margins.
Script: Written in a southern textualis libraria with red rubrics.
Decoration: Nine-line initial on fol. [5] in interlocking blue and red. Two- and three-line initials rubricated throughout in alternating blue and red. Capital strokes in yellow. Capitula in blue, red, and black.
Binding: 19th-century brown goatskin with the author (listed as Humbert) and title stamped in gilt on the upper cover ("Humbertus de Institutione Religionis.") and the date stamped in gilt on the lower cover ("Liber. M.S. MCCCLXXX.").
Origin: Written in Italy or Southern France in 1380. See colophon on fol. Cxxxvii verso ("Explicit liber erudire Ierusalem totus sit laus Domino Ihesu Christo et Matri eius gloriosissime. Quem scripsit & perfecit D.T.M. monasterii sancti Laurentii [erased] sub anno domino M.CCC.L.xxx.")
Provenance: Early/contemporary marginalia throughout. Ca. 19th-century inscription on fol. [1]r attributing the work to Humbert of Romans. BPL embossed stamp on fol. [1]r. Purchased by Theodore Parker in Rome, 1844, according to an inscription on the front flyleaf verso.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the BPL in Oct., 1861 via the Theodore Parker bequest.
Call number: MS q Med.260.
Former call number: B.144.6.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

France

Bookplates

Digital images

Embossed stamps

Gothic scripts

Manicules

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Medieval

Massachusetts--Boston

Education

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444881

IIIF Manifest:

http://www.archive.org/details/deinstitutionere00guil/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library