Binding: Oak boards, quarter calf spine blind-stamped, clasps and catches, parchment endleaves, by Douglas Cockerell, 1899 (signed inside lower cover); in a blue cloth case. Other decoration, ff. 1r-98v: Simple one-color 2-line chapter initials throughout in blue, yellow-brown or red; 3- to 4-line initials in similar colors at start of each book with simple ornament in the contrasting color. Script, ff. 1r-98v: Proto-gothic Textura. Layout, ff. 1r-98v: Collation: i#^6# [of 8, i–ii lacking or canceled], ii–vii#^8#, viii#^6# [of 8, lacking i and viii, leaves after fols. 55 and 60], ix–xii#^8#, xiii#^6#, xiv–xviii#^8#, xix#^4#, with two sequences of numerical signatures at foot of last rectos (fols. 1–98, I–[XIII], and fols. 99–142, I– [VI]); ruled in plummet, 2 columns, part i, 28 lines, each column 197 mm. by 60 mm. with...
Former Owner(s):
François-Nicolas Comynet (1791-1848), no. 168 in the list of manuscripts bought by him in 1825 from the municipality of Auxerre (Liber Prosperi De vita contemplativa, et liber Anselmi De processione Spiritus Sancti; sent by Comynet to the dealer Sylvestre, in Paris; the abbé Joseph-Félix Allard (1795-1831), translator of Tertullian and priest of St-Eustache in Paris,
bought probably from Sylvestre and sold, perhaps through Teschener, to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MS 3735 (Ex Bibliotheca M. Allard; Phillipps sale, Sotheby’s, 23 March 1895, lot 918; Harold Baillie Weaver (d. 1926); his sale, Christie’s, 29 March 1898, lot 483; Laurence Hodson (1864-1933), with his booklabel in Kelmscott type; his sale, Sotheby’s, 5 December 1906, lot 504;
Maggs cat. 246 (1909), no. 820; Sotheby’s, 21 July 1913, lot 1077; Maggs cat. 380 (1919), no. 1699, and cat. 542 (1930), no. 46;Edward Duff Balken, of Pittsburg, PA, with his bookplate; George A. Poole (bought from H. P. Kraus, cat. 75, 1955, no. 5), and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
Manuscript note: Almost certainly from the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny; the volume is made up from two distinct components, each with its own sent of quire signatures. Bibliography: Phillipps 1837-71, p. 48; Schenkl 1892, pp. 64-65; Faye and Bond 1962, p. 179; Peyrafort-Huin 2001, pp. 264, 270 and 505-06, nos. 60-61. ff. 1r-98v: Punctus flexus punctuation towards the beginning and end only. ff. 1r-98v: Latin. ff. 99r-118r: Latin. ff 1r-63v: Prologue: Dui multumque renisus sum; table of chapters on gpl. 2r, and Books I fol. 2v, II 16v, III 36v. Incipit, ff 1r-63v: verba sunt instituta. Explicit, ff. 63v-97v: Innocenta vera est. Incipit, ff 97v-98v: quam gehenne, Explicit. Explicit, ff 97v-98v: Nato michi quondam. ff. 99r-118r: Table of chapters begins on fol. 99r, Que sit originalis; text begins fol.99b. Incipit, ff. 99r-118r: probari poterit. Explicit, ff. 99r-118r: Cum in omnibus. Incipit, ff. 118r-142r: sensui latinitatis. Explicit, ff. 118r-142r: Negatur a grecis quod. f.142r-v: c. 1200 series of short additions. Explicit, f.142r-v: De conceptu seculi, Unde superbit homo. Explicit, f. 142r-v: De monacho qui dormiebat in choro, Flecte capud fili . Explicit, f. 142r-v: Petrus eram. Explicit, f. 142r-v: Me miser hic finis.
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