[Gathering from glossed Second Corinthians]

Contributor:

Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Sankt Johannes Baptist (Rebdorf, Germany) (former owner); Schøyen Collection (former owner)

Name:

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160

Date:

1210

Description:

Six conjugate folios from Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians (Nam gloria nostra ... nos credimus, 2 Corinthians 1.12-4.13), with glosses from Peter Lombard's Collectanea, also referred to as the Magna glossatura.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Parent manuscript has been described as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf (Christie's).; Parent manuscript offered for sale at auction at Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus F. Zisska & R. Kistner (Munich), 3 May 1988, lot 1 (Christie's).; Parent manuscript formerly held in the Schøyen Collection, MS 124 (Christie's).; Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 82, to Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Markkleeberg, Germany); manuscript disbound and gathering sold by Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Scott Gwara).; Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), 2011.

Relation:

Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/57

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Fragments (object portions); Commentaries; Glosses (annotations); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval

Physical Description:

6 leaves : parchment; 352 x 256 (242 x 150) mm bound to 361 x 265 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Parchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 1⁶; 103-108, modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 55 lines of gloss (main text, where present, written in a larger script on alternate lines spanning half a column), with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible.; Script: Written in a Gothic book script, in a larger size for main text and a smaller size for the gloss.; Decoration: Running title S[e]c[un]da ad Co[rinthios] in red and blue; numerous 1- to 4-line initials alternating in red and blue ink with contrasting penwork flourishes that extend into the left margins; lemmas in gloss underlined in red.; Binding: Modern half calf with marbled paper (Benson's Hand Bindery, Columbia, S.C.).; Origin: Written in northern France, probably Paris, ca. 1210 (King Alfred's Notebook).; Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no 95; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; Bloomsbury, 6 July 2017, lot 10; 2 July 2019, lot 13 and 6 July 2021, lot 41; Christie's, 14 December 2022, lot 4. A bifolium with two large gold initial 'P's is in the Scheetz collection (S. Gwara, Bibliotheca Scheetziana, 2014, no 17, pp. 109-18.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1603