Other decoration, ff. 1-2v: 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with flourishing of the other color; red and blue paragraph marks; rubrics; running headlines in red and blue (on the verso, "L"[iber] and on the recto "II"). Script, ff. 1-2v: Gothic. Layout, ff. 1-2v: 2 columns of 34 lines fully ruled in lead (?).
Former Owner(s):
On f. 1, upside down on the verso, and referring to the book in which this leaf served as a pastedown, s. XV: "Est Liber Thome Sallys [?]," "amen" [?]; a small round face. This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892.
they had five children; by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
Note:
Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346. ff. 1-2v: Stains from the glue that made these leaves pastedowns. ff. 1-2v: Sancti Bonaventurae . . . Opera (Venice 1751-1756), vol.7, "Compendium theologicae Veritatis, Liber II, De operibus conditoris," chapters 13-15 on pp. 44-46, and chapters 45-48 on pp. 61-63. The first leaf cited below at incipit and explicit fields; the second leaf is: //particularia sed per intellectum universalia et quando intellectus se convertit ad particulare ut ipsum... Incipit, ff. 1-2v: Ministrare vero est nuntiare pro temporis opportunitate vel operari seundum officium. Est enim ministerium nuntii et officii. Erratum est circa motum angelorum//. Explicit, ff. 1-2v: //sine elatione presunt, minores sine vicio subsunt, qui ad exteriora exeunt, ab interiori contemplatione non recedunt. Omnem veritatem inferiorum Superiores participant non contra. Qui excellent in natura precedent in gratia et in gloria.
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