Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 193
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS519
- Shelfmark:
- Ricketts 193
- Title:
- Historia Scholastica
Incipit summa magistri petri manducatoris super literam in lucam
Biblical History - Peter Comestor
- Place:
- Germany, Rhineland
- Date:
- s. XII(ex); 1185-1199
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Contemporary binding of square-edged wooden boards flush with the text block and sewn onto 3 double thongs, covered with tawed skin, residue of dangling book markers of tawed leather, upper cover with traces of a late medieval title written directly onto the surface (as on fol. 1v, including pressmark ‘B 13’ or possibly ‘D 13’) massive metal chain of 11 links attached to a hasp at the...
Other decoration, ff. 1-158r: Marginal and other headings in red, large and small penwork initials throughout in red, including a 9-line interlaced initial on fol. 1v with scrolling leafy decoration infilled with hatching, and a 6-line initial on fol. 84v.
Script, ff. 1-158r: Proto-gothic Textura.
Layout, ff. 1-158r: Collation: i#^6# [of 8, i–ii canceled], ii–xx#^8#, with some contemporary quire signatures in the cener of the last versos, and at least one catchword (fol. 110v, end of quire xiv); ruled in plummet, 25 lines, written space 167 mm. by 100 mm., prickings in outer margins, script beginning above top ruled line. - Former Owner(s):
- Premonstratensian abbey of Steinfeld, near Cologne, founded in 1130 and suppressed in 1802, with the contemporary inscription and curse against theft on fol. 1r, liber ecclesie sancte marie de steinfelt Si quis abstulerit anathema sit amen and the late medieval inscription on fol. 158v, Liber Ecclesie Sancte marie virginis in steinfelt(the last two words in slightly paler ink).
other inscriptions include the numbers 255 and N. 14 and a note on fol. 1r dated 1447 recording an outbreak of the plague in the houses of Heinrich, count of Nassau, lasting from Michaelmas (29 September, 1446 presum-ably) to the feast of Saint John the Baptist (24 June the following year); Dr. Leander van Ess (1772-1847), of Darmstadt, his no. 26 (label on spine).
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), bought with the van Ess library in 1824, his MS 409, with his stencilled crest; his sale, Sotheby’s, 9 June 1910, lot 660, to Edwards; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), bought with the van Ess library in 1824, his MS 409, with his stencilled crest; his sale, Sotheby’s, 9 June 1910, lot 660, to Edwards; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
- Note:
- Manuscript note: The library at Steinfeld was indeed chained and the triangular-shaped metal hasp rivetted at the upper edge of the lower cover is similar to those on other medieval bindings from the library. However, the chain itself was clearly not present when the manuscript was catalogued in 1910, and it is doubtless a twentieth-century romantic reconstruction attached to an authentic hasp.
Bibliography: van Ess 1823, p. 8, no. 26; De Ricci 1935, p. 647; Stegmüller 1989, p. 288; Krämer 1989, p. 737.
ff. 1-158r: Many contemporary corrections and notes and other signs of extensive use, lower half of last leaf cut away.
ff. 1-158r: Latin.
ff.1-158r: Although the book identifies the text as a summa on Luke, it is simply the second volume of the Historia Scholastica from Maccabees to Acts. Incipit begins fol. 1v, (Stegmüller no. 6563; Migne, PL 198: 1525), followed by the Gospels Fuit autem in diebus fol. 11r, (Stegmüller no. 6564) and Acts Anno nono decimo imperiifol. 84v, (Stegmüller no. 6565).
Explicit, ff.1-158r: Mortuo simone qui ultimus filiorum. - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Ricketts193_40
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts193_40/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
