Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Commentarius in librum II sententiarum petri lombardi

Authors

• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274 (https://viaf.org/viaf/89657091)

Other related names

• Donadski, Matthew (Donadzkus, Mattaeo Ant.), former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/78699777)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 5
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms5.shtml
• deRicci: 5

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Eastern Germany or Poland

Summary

This is a manuscript from Eastern Germany or Poland, written in 1454, which contains Bonaventure's Commentary on Book II of Peter Lombard's Sentences. The major and minor text divisions are marked by one- to five-line red ink initials, with some of the larger initials having terminals ending in foliage serifs. There are running headings on verso in black and the guide letters for the decorator are visible beside or inside the initials. Some quires are supported along the inner margin by strips of parchment containing musical notation either on the inside or the outside of the quire. There is extensive marginalia in contemporary hands.

Notes

• Several leaves removed, probably at the time of binding, leaving behind stubs of paper, but no loss of text
   
• First eight leaves, containing index, counted as flyleaves; fol. 34 torn out leaving stub with traces of writing; no corresponding loss of text (stub has been imaged and included in folio count); number 386 repeated in foliation; number 413 skipped in foliation
   
• Extensive marginalia in contemporary hands
   
• Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century shelfmark in ink on upper margin of fol. 1r: "N.18. B. 4."
   
• Written by several scribes in gothic cursive above the top line
   
• Fragments of liturgical music used as guards before fol. 1, and between fols. 476-477 and fols. 482-483
   

Watermark

Watermark, unidentified ferule; watermark similar to Mosic and Traljic Tête de Boeuf 1442; watermark similar to Mosic and Traljic Tête de Boeuf 1447; watermark, unidentified crown; watermark, two different and unidentified steer's heads; watermark, mountain similar to Briquet 11790; Watermark, Greek cross similar to Briquet Croix Grecque 5548-9

Extent

Viii+495; 308 x 208 mm bound to 329 x 226 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (12, -12), 3 (12, -1), 4 (16, -1 -14 -15), 5-7 (10), 8 (14), 9-11 (10), 12 (6), 13-14 (12), 15 (16, -16), 16 (16), 17-42 (12), 43 (1, +1)

Signatures

Signatures lower right recto, usually just first half of the quire; some signature notations missing, possibly due to trimming

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords centered in lower margin below text on verso at folios: 12v, 33v, 47v, 57v, 67v, 77v, 91v, 101v, 111v, 121v, 139v, 166v, 182v, 194v, 206v, 218v, 230v, 242v, 254v, 266v, 278v, 290v, 302v, 314v, 326v, 338v, 350v, 362v, 374v, 386v, 397v, 409v, 422v, 234v, 246v, 458v, 470v, 482v, 494v

Binding

Original binding of wooden boards covered in pigskin; five metal bosses on each cover with two rectangular clasps on the upper board and leather straps on the lower; chain attachment at bottom of lower board missing with piece of board; gold-tooled on spine: "BONAVENTURA/ COMM. IN 2 LIB./ SENTENTIARUM/ MS./ 1454."

Layout

Single column, thirty-one to thirty-nine lines with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines in lead; prickings for bounding lines visible in outer three margins; written area: 220 x 140 mm

Decoration

Major and minor text divisions marked by one- to five-line red ink initials; larger initials with terminals ending in foliage serifs; running headings on verso, in black; guide letters for decorator visible beside or inside initials

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Colophon

On fol. 495v: "Finitus 1454 18 Maii."

Provenance

• Thorn [Torun], Franciscan Monastery
   

Related resources

• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 434, no. 5.
• 1831 - Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851 - Interesting collection of manuscripts upon vellum and paper: recently purchased from the monasteries of Agen in Gascony, Lamspring in Germany, and another importation ; together with some curious English articles from the collection of the late W. Hamper, Esq. and Dr. Price, lot 11460
• 1831-05-20 - Sotheby and Son - Catalogue of a valuable collection of autograph letters of distinguished persons, original documents, &c. ... to which is added, a valuable collection of Greek and Latin manuscripts ...., lot 188

Keywords

• 15th century
• Poland
• Treatise
• Theology
• Germany

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Index; incipit: Ab aliquid; explicit: ...ut coacte perpetrantur non omnia possunt sine voluntate comitti.
• fol. 1r — Commentary on Book II of Peter Lombard's Sentences; incipit: Solummodo hoc inveni quod deus fecerit hominem rectum et temporibus ipse se infinitis immiscuit quaestionibus [fol. 1r]; explicit: ...qui se infinitis questionibus miscuit peccatorum secundum quem series duorum librorum precedentium cuius est omnis honor et gloria et imperium per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. Finitus 1454 18 Maii. [fol. 495v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Print catalogue entry
• fol. 1r — Four-line initial S in red ink
• fol. 51r — Five-line red initial P
• fol. 53v — Four-line red initial P
• fol. 100v — Five-line initial P in red ink
• fol. 112r — Five-line initial H in red ink
• fol. 149v — Five-line initial I in red ink
• fol. 193v — Five-line initial I in red ink
• fol. 194v — Five-line initial H in red ink
• fol. 282r — Four-line initial I in red ink
• fol. 301v — Five-line initial H in red ink
• fol. 334r — Four-line initial P in red ink
• fol. 375v — Four-line initial P in red ink
• fol. 433r — Five-line initial H in red ink
• Inside back cover — Bookseller's note in pencil