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

Title

De consideratione (On Consideration)

Authors

• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153 (http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293)
• William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, approximately 1085-1148? (http://viaf.org/viaf/5724165)

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 26
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 138

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders?

Summary

This early-fifteenth-century manuscript, possibly written in Flanders, contains three theological treatises. The first is Saint Bernard's De consideratione, the second is the De colloquio symonis et ihesu and the third is the De amore dei. A table of contents on fol. 1v attributes the three texts to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux but the second text is now thought to be by an anonymous author and the third is attributed to William of Saint-Thierry. The table of contents on fol. 1v also contains two additional titles which have been rubbed out and removed from the volume, as well as a rubbed-out ownership or library inscription.

Notes

• Folio 1 is conjoined to upper pastedown; lower pastedown is conjoined to folio 122 as part of the final duernion
   

Extent

124; 234 x 164 mm bound to 242 x 172 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (2), 2-16 (8), 17 (4)

Signatures

Original alphanumeric signatures visible in lower right corner of most rectos

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular horizontal catchwords in lower right corners (some trimmed) at fols.: 9v, 17v, 25v, 33v, 41v, 49v, 57v, 65v, 73v, 81v, 89v, 97v, 105v, 113v, 121v

Binding

Eighteenth-century Belgian half sheep

Layout

One column of twenty-seven lines; ruled in black ink; written area: 159 x 106 mm

Decoration

Ornamental initials in red and blue with marginal penwork extensions; rubrication and capitals touched up in red

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• De Ricci states: "N. 459 in an English bookseller's cat. (Thorp?)"; 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. 2050, no. 138.
• 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), pp. 32-33, no. 26.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Flemish
• Flanders
• Belgium
• Theology
• Gothic

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Table of contents; incipit: In isto libro continentur [fol. 1v]
• fol. 2r — Preface to De consideratione; incipit: Subit animum dictare aliquid quod [fol. 2r]; explicit: non sentit amoris [fol. 2r]
• fol. 2v — De consideratione; incipit: Unde iam ergo incipiam [fol. 2v]; explicit: sed non Finis quarendi [fol. 61r]
• fol. 61v — Prologue and list of chapters for De colloquio symonis et ihesu; incipit: Ut tibi dulcissime praesentis exhortationis [fol. 61v]; explicit: Exhortatio brevis de vita eterna [fol. 63r]
• fol. 63v — De colloquio symonis et ihesu; incipit: Dixit Simon Petrus ad Iesum [fol. 63v]; explicit: per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. [fol. 94v]
• fol. 94v — De amore dei; incipit: Venite ascendamus ad montem [fol. 94v]; explicit: et sepe fiunt primi novissimi et novissimi primi. [fol. 124r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 2r — Five line decorated initial S
• fol. 2v — Five line decorated initial U
• fol. 11r — Four line decorated initial M
• fol. 23v — Four line decorated initial F
• fol. 24r — Print catalog entry
• fol. 35v — Five line decorated initial S
• fol. 47v — Five line decorated initial L
• fol. 61v — Six line decorated initial U
• fol. 63v — Six line decorated initial D
• fol. 94v — Large decorated initial V
• Inside back cover — Print catalog entry