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Title

Summa aurea in quattuor libros sententiarum

Authors

• Guillermus, Altissiodorensis, d. 1231

Other related names

• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 699
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615169
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487493

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

13--

Place

France?

Summary

Theological questions and answers grouped into 4 books, corresponding to the arrangement of the Sentences of Peter Lombard. The text begins twice, starting over again after the first two leaves (f. 3r). According to descriptive notes on file in the library, this manuscript differs in many readings from the printed text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Partial outline of Book 4, in a later hand (f. 351).
   
• Part of lower margin of f. 1 cut away (probably contained ownership entry).
   

Extent

351 leaves : 240 x 263 (165 x 110) mm. bound to 248 x 173 mm

Foliation

Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 351 + ii (modern paper); [1-20, 20-350]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern half-morocco, front cover detached along hinge.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 46-50 lines; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible on inner margins of some leaves (for example, f. 212).

Decoration

Rubricated, with paragraph marks in red and blue, puzzle initials ranging in height from 5 lines to 8 lines, with penwork ornamentation in red and blue (for example, f. 1r, 3r, 117r, 273r); 2-line and 3-line initials in red and blue with contrasting filigree throughout.

Script

Written in 1 Gothic hand or 2 similar Gothic hands, commentary and marginal notes in another, nearly contemporary hand, additional notes in later hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Wilfred Michael Voynich; sold by the Voynich estate, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Catholic works
• Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• French
• France
• Theology
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Book 1 (incomplete), De fide, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Book 1 (complete), De fide, f. 1r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Puzzle initial, Initial F, f. 1r
• fol. 2v — Owner note, List of books, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Puzzle initial, Initial F, f. 3r
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r