Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 162
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS511
- Shelfmark:
- Ricketts 162
- Title:
- Sidonius Apollinaris to Agricola
Letter
De vera religione
De verbis apostolis
De heresis adversus chirstainum fidem
De haeresibus
Quotations - Sidonius Appolinaris
Augustine
Augustine, Isidore, Cassiodorus, Damasus, and others
Augustine, Isidore, Cassiodorus, Damasus, and others
Augustine, Isidore, Cassiodorus, Damasus, and others
Augustine, Isidore, Cassiodorus, Damasus, and others
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- s. XII(2/4); 1125-1150
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Bound in early nineteenth-century French calf gilt, edges mottled red, marbled endleaves, paper flyleaves; in a fawn cloth case.
Script, ff. 1r-2r: Romanesque textura.
Layout, ff. 1r-2r: First leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf.
Figurative details, ff. 2v-61r: large decorated initial (fol. 2v), 6 to 8 lines high, including faces and dragons among leafy tendrils drawn in black and infilled with red, purple, blue, yellow, etc.
Other decoration, ff. 2v-61r: Headings in red majuscules, a few coloured initials.
Script, ff. 2v-61r: Romanesque textura.
Layout, ff. 2v-61r: Collation: i#^8+1# [first leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf ], ii–xiv#^8#; ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written-space 160 mm. by 78 mm., prickings in outer margins only.
Other decoration, ff. 61v-66r: Headings in red majuscules, a few coloured initials.
Script, ff. 61v-66r: Romanesque textura.
Layout, ff. 61v-66r: Collation: i#^8+1# [first leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf ], ii–xiv#^8#; ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written-space 160 mm. by 78 mm., prickings in outer margins only.
Figurative details, ff. 66v-70r: Large decorated initial (f. 66v), 6 to 8 lines high, including faces and dragons among leafy tendrils drawn in black and infilled with red, purple, blue, yellow, etc.
Other decoration, ff. 66v-70r: Headings in red majuscules, a few coloured initials.
Script, ff. 66v-70r: Romanesque textura.
Layout, ff. 66v-70r: Collation: i#^8+1# [first leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf ], ii??“xiv#^8#; ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written-space 160 mm. by 78 mm., prickings in outer margins only.
Figurative details, ff. 71v-104v: Large decorated initial ( 77r), 6 to 8 lines high, including faces and dragons among leafy tendrils drawn in black and infilled with red, purple, blue, yellow, etc.
Other decoration, ff. 71v-104v: Headings in red majuscules, a few coloured initials.
Script, ff. 71v-104v: Romanesque textura.
Layout, ff. 71v-104v: Collation: i#^8+1# [first leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf ], ii–xiv#^8#; ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written-space 160 mm. by 78 mm., prickings in outer margins only.
Other decoration, ff. 105r-113v: Headings in red majuscules, a few coloured initials.
Script, ff. 105r-113v: Romanesque textura.
Layout, ff. 105r-113v: Collation: i#^8+1# [first leaf, now with text, originally a blank endleaf ], ii–xiv#^8#; ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written-space 160 mm. by 78 mm., prickings in outer margins only. - Former Owner(s):
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois, of Lille (1784-1855), his 297 (green label on spine); the collection bought in 1849 by Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); the fifth earl’s sale, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1901, lot 33.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois, of Lille (1784-1855), his 297 (green label on spine); the collection bought in 1849 by Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); the fifth earl’s sale, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1901, lot 33.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois, of Lille (1784-1855), his 297 (green label on spine); the collection bought in 1849 by Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); the fifth earl’s sale, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1901, lot 33.
Quaritch, cat. 211 (January 1902), no. 24, and cat. 290 (June 1910), no. 448; bought by C. L. Ricketts from W. M. Voynich, January 1917, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Quaritch, cat. 211 (January 1902), no. 24, and cat. 290 (June 1910), no. 448; bought by C. L. Ricketts from W. M. Voynich, January 1917, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Quaritch, cat. 211 (January 1902), no. 24, and cat. 290 (June 1910), no. 448; bought by C. L. Ricketts from W. M. Voynich, January 1917, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
- Associated Agent(s):
- Agricola, recipient of letter
Quodovultdeus, letter to
Quodvultdeum, letter to
- Note:
- Manuscript note: The manuscript is of curiously small format for a romanesque patristic text. It was doubtless made for a monastery suppressed at the French Revolution. It has notes on the flyleaves that it was sold in France on 10 April 1818 and re-sold in 1829 for 115 francs.
Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 642; Daur 1961, p. 364.
ff. 1r-2r: Latin.
ff. 2v-61r: Latin.
ff. 61v-66r: Latin.
ff. 66v-70r: Latin.
ff. 71v-104v: Latin.
ff. 105r-113v: Latin.
ff. 1r-2r: Contemporary addition to ms. See Epistolae, I, ep. ii; Migne, PL 58: 445–50.
Explicit, ff. 1r-2r: Sepe numero postulavisti.
ff. 2v-60v: Migne, PL 34: 122;Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, XXXII, 1962, p. 187.
Explicit, ff. 2v-60v: Cum omnis vite bone.
f. 61r: A short note on the virtues, see Migne PL184; 1023.
Explicit, f. 61r: Prudentia est cognitio rerum.
ff. 61v-66r: Migne, PL 39:1946.
Explicit, ff. 61v-66r: in lectione apostolica.
ff. 66v-70v: (esp. CCXXI-IV, Migne, PL33: 998; Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, LX, 1976, p. 489).
Explicit, ff. 66v-70v: Domino merito venerabili.
ff. 71v-76vr: Migne, PL 42: 21; Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, XLVI, 1969, p. 286.
Explicit, ff. 71v-76vr: Quod petis.
ff. 74v-75v: Quotations of Augustine interspersed throughout the previous prologue to Augustine, De haeresibus.
Explicit, ff. 77r-104v: Symonioni a symone mago.
ff. 105r-113v: Migne, PL42: 551.
Incipit, ff. 105r-113v: in gazophilatio recipiantur.
Explicit, ff. 105r-113v: Ego augustinus episcopus. - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Ricketts162_40
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts162_40/manifest.json
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