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

Title

Sententiae (Sentences)

Authors

• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80139470.html)

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 137
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1547295
• deRicci: 126

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

This manuscript is a 12th century copy, written in Spain, of the Sententiarum of St. Isidore (ca. 560-636), bishop of Seville and one of the Doctors of the Church. The Sententiarum is a collection of theological writings meant to serve as a manual for the clergy. Most of the passages were culled from the works of Gregory the Great and St. Augustine. It is divided into three parts and covers subjects such as creation, the nature of evil, ecclesiastical orders, and the judgment of God.

Extent

Ii+154+ii; 199 x 146 mm bound to 205 x 162 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-19 (8), 20 (2)

Signatures

Signatures throughout, Roman numerals, bottom center verso; signatures towards the end are trimmed fully or partially: 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 104v, 112v, 136v, 152v

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century brown morocco with blind stamped covers by Riviere, gilt edges. S. YSIDORI LIBRI TRES SENTENTIARUM CODEX M. S. IN MEMBRANIS S.AEC. XII stamped in gold on spine.

Layout

Written area: 157 x 105 mm, prickings visible on some leaves; One column of twenty-one of lines, hard point ruling; two decorated initials; two-, three-, and five-line red initials throughout; chapter numbers and titles in red throughout; marginal notes and corrections in a contemporary hand

Decoration

Decorated initials and rubrication throughout; several manicules

Script

Caroline Minuscule

Provenance

• J. and J. Leighton (booksellers), London; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, purchased July 28, 1920; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Printed description from catalog of J. and J. Leighton tipped onto front flyleaf; "Bound by Riviere" stamped in inside front cover
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 12th century
• Christian
• Caroline minuscule
• Manicules
• Spain
• Church Fathers
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; incipit: Su[m]mum bonu[m] D[eu]s e[st]. q[ui]a incommutabilis e[st] et corru[m]pi om[n]ino non potest. [1v]; explicit: Illi eni[m] deplorandi s[un]t in morte, quos miseros in fernus ex hac uita recipit, no[n] quos celestis aula letificandos concludit [sic]. [fol. 154R]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 2r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 3r — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 3v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 4v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 6r — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 6v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 7r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 10r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 11v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 15v — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 17r — Two-line red initial V
• fol. 18r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 19r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 21v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 23r — Two-line red initial G
• fol. 24v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 25v — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 26r — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 28r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 30r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 30v — Three-line red initial F
• fol. 31r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 31v — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 32v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 33r — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 34r — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 34v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 36v — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 36v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 37v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 39r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 40r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 41v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 42r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 42v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 44r — Two-line red initial G
• fol. 45r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 47r — Two-line red initial T
• fol. 48r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 48v — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 50r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 51v — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 51v — Manicule
• fol. 52r — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 54v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 55v — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 57r — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 57v — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 58v — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 59r — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 60v — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 60v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 61v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 61v — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 63r — Two-line red initial B
• fol. 63v — Two-line red initial B
• fol. 64v — Two-line red initial H
• fol. 65r — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 65v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 65v — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 68r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 69r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 70r — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 71r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 71v — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 72r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 73r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 74v — Two-line red initial T
• fol. 75r — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 76v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 79v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 81r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 82v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 84v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 85v — Two-line red initial H
• fol. 89r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 90r — Two-line red initial G
• fol. 92r — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 93r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 93v — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 99r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 101r — Two-line red initial H
• fol. 102v — Manicule
• fol. 103r — Manicule
• fol. 105v — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 106v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 107r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 107v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 108r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 108v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 110r — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 111r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 112v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 113v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 114r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 114v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 114v — Manicule
• fol. 115r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 115v — Manicule
• fol. 116r — Two-line red initial H
• fol. 117r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 118r — Two-line red initial T
• fol. 120r — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 120v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 121v — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 122r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 122v — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 123r — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 123v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 124r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 124r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 125v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 126r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 127r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 127v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 128r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 129r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 130r — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 130r — Two-line red initial B
• fol. 130v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 131r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 132v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 133r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 134r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 136v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 137r — Two-line red initial V
• fol. 139r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 139v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 140r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 140v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 141r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 141r — Manicule
• fol. 141v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 142r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 142v — Two-line red initial V
• fol. 143r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 143v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 144r — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 145r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 145r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 146v — Manicule
• fol. 147r — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 147v — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 149v — Two-line red initial G
• fol. 152r — Two-line red initial T
• fol. 152v — Two-line red initial Q
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry