Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Hexameron

Authors

• Ambrose of Milan (http://viaf.org/viaf/100227669)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 4
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 116

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Diocese of Treviso, Montello, Italy

Summary

This book contains the text of the Hexameron, a commentary by Ambrose of Milan on the biblical account of the six days of Creation. In red ink at the end of the text, the scribe Guglielmo de Cruces wrote a colophon giving himself credit for finishing the book in 1468 and stating that the copy was destined for use in the Carthusian monastery of Montello in Treviso. The text is followed by three short exempla written in a different hand, drawn from Hugh of Grenoble's De vero iudicio iudicando, the Thesaurus pauperum, and the Exposition of Alan of Lisle on Matthew 26.

Notes

• Marginal notes in red appear to be by same hand as three exempla added on fol. 103r; early parchment flyleaves
   

Extent

Ii+103+ii; 182 x 126 mm bound to 192 x 136 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in roman numerals, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early twentieth century, parchment over pasteboard, gilt line border on edges, gold stamped spine with false raised bands, written in gold HEXAMERON AMBROSII M.S. 1468

Layout

One of column of thirty-three to thirty-four lines, hard point ruling; one-to-four-line initials in red throughout; running titles in red; written area: 127 x 79 mm

Script

Gothic--textualis

Scribe: Guilliem de Cruce

Colophon

Fol. 102v: "Explicit exameron beati ambrosii episcopi. Iste liber est domus montelli ordinis cartusie dyocesis tarusine. Scriptus per me fratrem guilliem de cruce. Professum eiusdem domus 1468."

Provenance

• Montello, diocese of Treviso, [olim ms. n. 10] (after 1469; in addition to colophon on 102v, fol. 1 contains inscription: "Domus montelli ordinis cartusie dyocesis tarusie. N. 10"); sold Anderson & Co., New York (December 6, 1920, no. 279); G. Michelmore, bookseller, London; resold by American Art Association, New York (January 30, 1923, no. 434); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2045, no. 116.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 7-8, no. 4.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Treatise
• Christian
• Biblical
• Theology
• Scripture

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Ir — Ambrose of Milan, Hexameron; incipit: Tantum ne opinionis assumpsisse homines… [fol. Ir]; explicit: cui est honor gloria perpetuitas a seculis, et nunc et semper et in omnia secula seculorum. Amen. [fol. CIIIv]
• CIIIr — Excerpt from Hugh of Grenoble, De vero iudicio iudicando; incipit: Legitur in legenda sancti hugonis grenonpolitani
• CIIIr — Excerpt from the Thesaurus pauperum; incipit: Legitur etiam in libro qui dicitur thesaurus pauperum…
• CIIIr — Exposition of Alan of Lisle on Matthew 26; incipit: Omnes enim qui acceperint gladium

Decorations

• Ir — Four line red pen initial T
• VIIIv — Two line red initial B
• Xv — Two line red initial T
• Xv — Two line red initial Q
• XIIIr — Two line red initial M
• XIIIv — Two line red initial D
• XIIIIr — Two line red initial U
• XIIIIr — Two line red initial A
• XVr — Two line red initial Q?
• XVIr — Two line red initial A
• XVIIr — Two line red initial E
• XXIIr — Two line red initial D
• XXIIIv — Two line red initial R
• XXIIIv — Two line red initial Q
• XXVIIv — Two line red initial C
• XXVIIIv — Three line red initial A
• XLIIr — Two line red initial Q
• XLIIIv — Two line red initial Q
• LIIIIr — Two line red initial U
• LIIIIv — Three line red initial U
• LXXIXv — Two line red initial S
• LXXXXv — Two line red initial Q