[Abbreviation of Peter of Tarentaise's commentary on Peter Lombard's Sententiarum, libri IV]

Name:

Rothwell, William de

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1270

Description:

An early copy of the Sentences commentary by the English Dominican, William de Rothwell, probably composed between 1270 and 1280. This text is an abbreviation of the commentary of Peter of Tarentaise (Pope Innocent V) on Peter Lombard's Sentences. Text is comprised of a Tabula (f. 1-20) which lists questions from Peter Lombard's Sentences in order of their appearance in that text, with William de Rothwell's excerpts from the commentary in 4 books (f. 24-139). Kent Emery suggests this text may have been used for meditations.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Jacobus P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover).; Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.; Lyell, James P. R. 1871-1948, former owner.

Subject:

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160. Sententiarum libri IV.; Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800; Theology, Doctrinal

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

139 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 167 x 122 (127 x 91) mm bound to 170 x 125 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: [1-23], I-LXXII, LXXIIII-CXVI, [139]; contemporary foliation in red and blue Roman numerals, upper center verso; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; framed catchwords at the end of gatherings beginning on f. 47v.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 33-34 lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible.; Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script by two hands with annotations on the final folio and prayer on the front pastedown in later hands.; Decoration: Rubricated throughout, alternating use of blue and red; 3-line penwork initials in red and blue (f. 24r, 68r, 106r).; Binding: Contemporary pigskin, dyed red, over boards, with remnants of two clasps and leather strap on upper cover.; Origin: Written in northern France or southern Germany, possibly in the southeastern Low Countries (Emery).; Incipit: Queritur utrum theologia sit scientia (f. 1r).; Colophon in a later (14th-15th century?) hand: Explicit excerptum Magistri petri de tarantasia super quator libros sententiarum Qui postea fuit Magister ordinis electusque est in summum pontificem (f. 139r).; Date in a later hand: In die dorothe lxij [1362] (f. 139r).; Prayer or invocation on inside upper cover lists names of angels and demons beginning, Lamech, Salmalaach, Helmahn...; Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.; Latin.; Related Work: Innocent V, Pope, approximately 1224-1276. In Sententias I-IV Petri Lombardi.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 686