Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Florilegium

Authors

• Aristotle
• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636

Other related names

• Rooryck, André, former owner

Call number

LJS 477
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947455423503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793019203
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4745542

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with one inscription in Hebrew (f. 20r)

Origin

Date

circa 1250

Place

Oxford?, England

Summary

Collection of sermons, probably compiled from multiple sources, belonging to a preacher, probably Dominican. Many marginal notes, some indicating the liturgical season or the theme of a sermon, a few noting a cited source (including Ambrose, Gamaliel, and Isidore). Also excerpts from De animalibus, attributed to Aristotle (f.3r-4r, 61r-68r); notes on natural history including information on birds and insects, arranged alphabetically, followed by information on metals (f. 4r-10v); and excerpts from Isidore's Etymologies (f. 56r-60v). The lower center margin of each page contains a sequential number, often repeated for multiple pages, that indicates a section or possibly a source; as the manuscript is currently bound, the sequence is 34-37, 1-15, which suggests that the current beginning (f. 1r-12v) was originally at the end of or later in this manuscript, with a large number of leaves after the existing end missing. Numbers in the upper center margin (15-18, 22-36) seem meant to serve the same function, though the sections in the two schemes do not always correspond; they are later than those in the lower margin. In each numbered section, the columns are assigned letters and each column is divided from top to bottom into 9 segments, allowing cross-references by section, column, and segment; there are numerous cross-references in this form throughout the manuscript, contemporaneous with the section numbers in the lower margin. The quality of the parchment is quite low, with a number of holes and defects. The Hebrew inscription (f. 20v), possibly in the same ink as some of the cross-reference numbers in between the columns but written after them, consists of the Hebrew alphabet in 2 lines, including both regular and terminal forms, and the first 3 verses of the Song of Solomon.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

71 leaves : 187-195 x 138-144 (144 x 94) mm. bound to 202 x 154 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (modern paper) + 71 + i (modern paper) ; 1-53, 55-72; later foliation in red ink, lower center recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern parchment over pasteboard.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 53-64 lines, with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible on many leaves.

Decoration

Diagrams of distinctions (f. 1v-2r, 11v-13v, 17r, 20v, 24r, 43r-43v, 46v-47r, 63r, 72v); paragraph marks, some initials, and some underlining in red in limited sections of manuscript (f. 1r-19v, 29v-31r); blue paragraph marks on one leaf (f. 71v); occasional manicules (for example, f. 29r, 31v, 55v).

Script

Written in scholastic script.

Provenance

• Sold by a French dealer to Andre Rooryck.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 July 2005, lot 50, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
• Natural history--Early works to 1800
• Zoology--Pre-Linnean works

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Diagrams
• Sermons
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Collection of Sermons
• Diagrams
• English
• England
• History

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Diagram, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Diagram, f. 2r
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Diagram, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Diagram, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 17r — Diagram, f. 17r
• fol. 20r — Hebrew inscription, f. 20r
• fol. 20v — Diagram, f. 20v
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 29r — Manicule, f. 29r
• fol. 31v — Manicule, f. 31v
• fol. 43r — Diagram, f. 43r
• fol. 43v — Diagram, f. 43v
• fol. 46v — Diagram, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Diagram, f. 47r