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Title

Periermenias Aristotelis ... etc.

Authors

• Boethius, -524
• Apuleius
• Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Beck, Helmut, 1919-2001, former owner
• Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Abbey), former owner

Call number

LJS 101
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9951865503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492338
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5186550

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 850

Place

France

Summary

9th-century copy of Boethius's Latin translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione, referred to in the manuscript as Periermenias, with the shorter of two commentaries that Boethius wrote on that work. Replacement leaves added in the 11th century to the beginning (f. 1-4) and end (f. 45-64) of the manuscript, in addition to providing the beginning and end of the Boethius (which is probably lacking 2 gatherings between extant gatherings 6 and 7), include the Periermeniae attributed to Apuleius in the medieval period, a poem by Decimus Magnus Ausonius on the seven days of Creation, a sample letter of a monk to an abbot with interlinear and marginal glosses, and other miscellaneous verses, definitions, and excerpts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1v).
   

Extent

64 leaves : 204-206 x 172-174 (136-148 x 100-128) mm. bound to 219 x 190 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (19th-century paper) + i (19th-century parchment) + 64 + i (19th-century parchment) + i (19th-century paper); 1⁴ 2⁴(+4) 3-8⁸ 9⁴; 1-64, 19th-century foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century English diced russia leather (lower flyleaf has J. Whatman 1832 watermark), bound for Sir Thomas Phillips.

Layout

Written in 20 (f. 5-36), 23 (f. 1-4, 45-64), and 27 (f. 37-44) long lines, with the first line above the top line; ruled in drypoint, with a narrow vertical column at each side of the text block into which initials extend in part or in whole; prickings visible on most leaves.

Decoration

5 9th-century diagrams, 3 in the ink of the text (f. 37v, 54v) and 2 with colored inks added in the 11th century (f. 36r, 36v); 11th-century full-page decorated initial with Celtic knotwork and lions' heads (f. 1v); 2 11th-century 3-line initials in red and blue (f. 2r, 60v); 11th-century red and blue ink added to 9th-century 3-line initial (f. 5r); 1- and 2-line initials, mostly in the ink of the text (but alternating with red, f. 30-34); 2 3-line and many 2-line 11th-century calligraphic initials in ink of the text with simple ornamentation (f. 44-64).

Script

Written in a 9th-century Carolingian minuscule, with replacement leaves in 11th-century Carolingian minuscule at beginning (f. 1-4) and end (f. 45-64), with headings in rustic Latin capitals.

Provenance

• Sold by bookseller James Taylor (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ca. 1826.
   
• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2179 (stamped crest inside upper cover; inscription with alternate number 717, f. 1r; label on spine).
   
• Sold as part of the residue of the Phillips collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus to Helmut Beck (Stuttgart), ms. 3 (embossed label, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Beck Collection, 16 June 1997, lot 3, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg in honor of Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania, 2014.
   

Subjects topical

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Carolingian--Specimens
• Logic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Poems
• Translations (documents)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--9th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--11th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 11th century
• 9th century
• Commentary
• Diagrams
• Illumination
• Philosophy
• French
• France

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Conclusion of a grammatical work, 7-line verse by Eugene II of Toledo, Isidore's definition of rhetoric, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Periermenias Aristotelis, f. 1v
• fol. 53v — Periermeniae, f. 53v
• fol. 60r — Versus de singulis mensibus, f. 60r
• fol. 60v — Sample letter of monk to abbot, f. 60v
• fol. 61r — Periermenias Aristotelis, f. 61r
• fol. 63r — Miscellaenous verses, definitions, and biblical commentary, f. 63r

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 2r
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 5r
• fol. 36r — Diagram, f. 36r
• fol. 36v — Diagram, f. 36v
• fol. 37v — Diagram, f. 37v
• fol. 45r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 45r
• fol. 45v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 45v
• fol. 46r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 46r
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 46v
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 46v
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 48r
• fol. 48r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 48r
• fol. 48v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 48v
• fol. 49r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 49r
• fol. 49r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 49v
• fol. 49v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 50r
• fol. 50r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 50r
• fol. 50v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 50v
• fol. 50v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 50v
• fol. 50v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 50v
• fol. 50v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 50v
• fol. 51r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 51r
• fol. 51v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 51v
• fol. 52r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 52r
• fol. 52r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 52r
• fol. 52v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 52v
• fol. 53r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 53r
• fol. 53r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 53v
• fol. 53v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 53v
• fol. 54v — Diagram, f. 54v
• fol. 57v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 57v
• fol. 60v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 60v
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 61r
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 61r
• fol. 61v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 61v
• fol. 61v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 61v
• fol. 61v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 61v
• fol. 62r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 62r
• fol. 62v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 62v