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Metadata

DS ID:

DS525

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 9

Title:

Acts

Acts of the Apostles

Canonical Epistles

Epistles

Apocalypse

Book of Revelation

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

s. XIII(1/4); 1200-1225

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in late eighteenth-century French calf, gilt spine, paper endleaves, printed label inside lower cover Relié à Chartres, chez Hamerville Libraire ruë des trois Mailletsi(as reproduced in Gruel 1905, p. 91); in a green cloth case.
Figurative details, ff. 1- 160: 10 large illuminated initials in ornamental designs of plant stems and some small lions on panels, painted in colors with infilling in burnished gold (fols. 4r, 79r, 89v, 100r, 107v, 119r, 120v, 121v, 125r and 126r, together with a small illuminated initial on fol. 78r).
Other decoration, ff. 1- 160: A few small textual initials in red and blue, running-titles in alternating red and blue letters, each gloss beginning with a paragraph-mark alternating red and blue with trailing penwork decoration embellished with sprays in the contrasting color.
Number of scribes, ff. 1- 160: Three: main scribe, two marginalia hands.
Script, ff. 1- 160: Gothic Textura.
Layout, ff. 1- 160: Collation: i#^1+8# (including original flyleaf, foliated ‘1’), ii–ix#^8#, x#^4#, xi–xv#^8#, xvi#^7# [of 8, blank viii canceled after fol. 124], xvii–xx#^8#, xxi#^4#, with horizontal catchwords; ruled in plummet for 44 lines, with the biblical texts in a central column of varying width (written on alternate ruled lines) and the glosses fitted in interlocking blocks on either...

Former Owner(s):

Perhaps from an institutional library in Chartres dispersed at the French Revolution; Pierre Gélis-Didot (b. 1853), his sale, Paris, Belin-Drouot, 12 April 1897, lot 3; Cecil Mallaby Firth (1878-1931), Egyptologist, with his bookplate; George Dunn (1865-1912), with his booklabel, bought in March 1900, probably from Sydney Cockerell (to judge from Dunn’s pencil note "S.C.C.");

Pierre Gélis-Didot WIKIDATA

Cecil Mallaby Firth WIKIDATA

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Dunn sale, Sotheby’s, 11 February 1913, lot 356, to Young; bought the following day by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts collection in 1961.

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 619.
ff. 1- 160: The manuscript has many medieval notes, especially in the Apocalypse, in two main hands, one of the thirteenth century and one of the fourteenth. They include a citation of Aristotle on fol. 80v, “Aristoteles. Meminime a natura duas habuisse aures, os unum” (‘Aristotle: Remember that by nature we are to have two ears but one mouth’), and the marking up of biblical readings for...
ff. 1- 160: Latin.
ff. 2r-77v: (Stegmüller no. 11831), with Acts 1 on fol. 4r.
Explicit, ff. 2r-77v: Fluvius egrediebatur de loco.
ff. 78r-124r: (Stegmüller no. 11846), with James (fol. 79r), I Peter (fol. 89v), II Peter (fol. 100r), I John (fol. 107v), II John (fol. 119r), III John (fol. 120v) and Jude (fol. 121v).
Explicit, ff. 78r-124r: Non ita est ordo.
ff. 126r-159v: (Stegmüller no. 11853).
Incipit, ff. 126r-159v: virtutum multiplicitas.
Explicit, ff. 126r-159v: Apocalipsis hec inter reliquos.

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington