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

Title

In epistolam Johannis ad Parthos (Sermons on the first epistle of Saint John)

Authors

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126290.html)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner
• Pithou, P., former owner
• Lepelletier de Rosanbo, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
• Library of the Dominicans of Paris, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 19
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 113

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript is a late twelfth-century copy of Augustine of Hippo's Sermons on the First Epistle of Saint John, written in France. Augustine wrote extensively on theological subjects. His sermons on John's first Epistle focus on the virtue of charity.

Notes

• Text is incomplete, ending in the middle of tract eight (of ten)
   
• Fol. 48v: An inscription in a Renaissance hand at the bottom of page gives the contents of the manuscript and explains that it ends in tract eight and is missing tracts nine and ten
   

Extent

I+48+i; 263 x 180 mm bound to 269 x 188 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; older ink foliation visible on some pages, mostly trimmed off

Collation

1-6 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Seventeenth-century vellum binding; handwritten on spine, "S August. Sermones"

Layout

Written area: 208 x 125 mm; One column of twenty-eight lines, lead point ruling

Decoration

Seven decorated initials

Script

Caroline Minuscule

Provenance

• P. Pithou (purchased at Troyes, 7 June 1613); Lepelletier de Rosanbo; Duchess de Berry (Paris, sale 1837); Library of the Dominicans of Paris; Guglielmo Libri sale (London, 1859); Sir Thomas Phillipps (his sale, 1898); Ouseley; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (1911); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplates of John Frederick Lewis, the Le Pelletier de Rosanbo and Caroline-Ferdinande-Louis de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry pasted onto inside of front cover; stamp of the Bibliothèque des frères Dominicains; Phillipps ms number "16234" written in pen on inside cover and on recto of first folio; in a sixteenth-century hand on first folio, "emptum Tricassib MDCXIII 7. Iunii" and "Augustinus de caritate."; in the same hand is the signature "P. Pithou" written on the top of the recto of the second folio; a date written in pencil on the recto first flyleaf: "Sotheby Ap 24, 1911."; pasted onto the flyleaf are a printed catalog description and a typed note that give a date of 1150; notes in Lewis's hand are written in pencil, also on the first flyleaf, give a brief biography of P. Pithon and list the manuscript's previous owners; on the verso of the flyleaf are two notes in French, one in an eighteenth-century hand and another in a nineteenth-century hand, which identify the text and provide notes as to provenance
   

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. 113.
• 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. 24, no. 19.

Keywords

• Collection of Sermons
• 12th century
• Christian
• France
• Church Fathers
• Caroline minuscule
• Scripture
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — In epistolam Joannis ad Parthos; incipit: Meminit S[an]c[t]itas v[est]ra Euang[e]li[um] se[cun]d[um] J[oann]em ex or dine lectionu[m] nos solere tractare; explicit: Paulu[m] int[er]roga ap[osto]l[u]m. Q[uonia]m caritas d[e]i diffusa e[st] in cordib[us] n[ost]ris p[er] sp[iritu]m s[an]c[tu]m q[ui] dat[us] est [Fol. 48v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis (top)
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Le Pelletier de Rosanbo (lower left)
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Caroline-Ferdinande-Louis de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry (lower right)
• Inside front cover — Owner stamp, Library of the Dominican Brothers
• Inside front cover — Manuscript number of Sir Thomas Phillipps
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Provenance notations
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 2r — Signature, P. Pithou
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 21r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 31r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 38r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 42v — Decorated initial D
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Provenance notations