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
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- s. XII(2/4); 1125-1150
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- 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;
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.archive.org/iiif/images_Ricketts162_40/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
