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Title

Collationes XXIV, incomplete

Authors

• Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435 (http://viaf.org/viaf/7408676)

Other related names

• Cope, Anthony, Sir, former owner
• 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 63
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1466056
• deRicci: 121

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England?

Summary

This manuscript is a twelfth-century copy of John Cassian's Collationes, twenty-four conversations with prominent monks about monastic life, recommended for monastic reading in the Benedictine rule. The text is now incomplete, lacking Collations 12, 16-22, and 24. It is in two parts, described in thirteenth-century notes inside the front cover as Decem collationes Cassiani ad beatum papam Leontium (Collationes I-X, fols. 1-103) and Collationes Abbatis Nesterotis de spirituali scientia (Collationes 13-15, 23, 11, fols. 104-143). Both parts are written in protogothic script and may have been written in England, but they are different in ruling, hand, and ornamentation, with the text of the second part somewhat later in date and the initials possibly even later.

Extent

I+143; 244 x 160 mm bound to 250 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (10), 3-7 (8), 8 (12), 9-10 (10), 11 (8), 12 (3, +1 +2 +3), 13-17 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower center last verso, Quires 13-16

Binding

Contemporary monastic binding of white leather (torn in places) over boards with one leather clasp; evidence of worn tooling patterns or ink-dyed finishing partially visible on back cover; partially legible inscription written vertically on lower half of upper cover: Lib… de Vr…..

Layout

One column of thirty-two to thirty-seven lines; frame-ruled in hard point with double horizontal bounding lines (fols. 1-103) and double vertical and horizontal bounding lines (fols. 104-143); prickings visible; text starts above top line throughout; written area: 185 x 100 mm (fols. 1-103), 182 x 100 (fols. 104-143)

Decoration

One nine-line initial in green and red (fol. 1r) and numerous one- to four-line initials in red in the first part of the manuscript (fols. 1r-102v); four four- to ten-line initials in green and red (fols. 104r, 114r, 119r, 135v) and numerous three- or four-line initials in red, green, red and green, or blue in the second part of the manuscript (fols. 104r-143r); rubrication in red throughout

Script

Protogothic

Written by at least three hands: scribe 1 is responsible for fols. 1r-10v, 13r-102v; scribe 2 for fols. 11r-12v; scribe 3 for fols. 104r-143r (more rounded, possibly English and slightly later)

Provenance

• Cope family at Bramshill Park, Hampshire; Sir Anthony Cope sale, Sotheby's, London, March 4 1913, lot 42; sold to Leighton (dealer); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; gift of Anne Baker Lewis to the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1936
   

Keywords

• 12th century
• English
• Missing leaves
• England
• Theology
• Church Fathers

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Decem collationes Cassiani ad beatum Papam Leontium; incipit: Debitum quod beatissimo pape castorio ... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ... ad d[eum] versiculi hui[us] meditatione seruauerint. [fol. 103r]
• fol. 104r — Collationes Abbatis Nesterotis de spirituali sciencia

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 94r — Marginal drawing, face
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 113r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 113v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 114r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 116r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 116v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 119r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 120v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 126v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 127v — Marginal drawing, face
• fol. 135v — Decorated initial C