Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Meditationes super Genesim; Novella materia super septem peccatis capitalibus

Authors

• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274 (http://viaf.org/viaf/89657091)

Other related names

• Celestine monastery at Metz, former owner
• Villiers de Boterhan, Count, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 2/3
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Metz, France

Summary

This fifteenth-century French manuscript contains two texts by Saint Bonaventure.

Notes

• Back flyleaves are ruled
   
• Several folios are palimpsest (e.g., fols. 113-116, 91-94)
   
• Back board is cracked
   
• First back flyleaf is the last folio in the last quire
   

Extent

Ii+161+ii; 105 x 73 mm bound to 109 x 78 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation, paper, upper right

Collation

1-14 (8), 15 (6), 16-20 (8), 21 (4)

Signatures

First four leaves of every quire numbered 1, 2, 3, 4; bottom right recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords throughout, bottom right verso: 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 64v, 72v, 88v, 104v, 112v, 118v, 126v, 134v, 142v, 150v

Binding

Original wood boards, stamped calf, remains of a metal clasp

Layout

One column of 19 lines; frame-ruled in pencil or light ink; written area: 82 x 50 mm

Decoration

Three-line red initial P (fol. 1r); Red three-line initial M (fol. 117r); red two-line initials and rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic

Scribe: Frater Johannes clericus

Provenance

• Was number 0/88/ in the monastery library; owned in 1517 by Count Villiers de Boterhan
   

Keywords

• Saint's Life
• 15th century
• French
• Gothic
• France
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Meditationes super Genesim
• fol. 119r — Novella super septem peccata capitalia

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Three-line red initial P
• fol. 119r — Three-line red initial M