Indiana University Bloomington, Poole 18
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS515
- Shelfmark:
- Poole 18
- Title:
- De vita contemplativa et activa
Sententia ex Augustino delibitae
Confessio
De conceptu virginali et de originali peccatu
De processione Spiritus sancti
Epitaphium petri comestoris
Epitaph
Epitaphium Comitis henrici - Julian Pomerius
Pseudo-Prosper
Anselm
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- s. XII(2); 1150-1199
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Associated Agent(s):
- Prosper of Acquitaine
Peter Comestor
Henry the Liberal, count of Champagne, 1126-1181
- Note:
- 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. - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Poole18_40
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- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Poole18_40/manifest.json
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