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Title

Speculum monachorum ... etc.

Authors

• Arnoul, de Bohéries, 12th cent

Other related names

• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153, associated name
• Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 716
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875273503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615200
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487527

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

12--

Place

France?

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work, where the work has a common but incorrect attribution to Bernard of Clairvaux (f. 30v).
   
• Heading [?] at the beginning of text (f. 5r) has been cut off.
   
• Bookseller's description pasted inside upper cover.
   

Extent

47 leaves : 150 x 118 mm. bound to 160 x 114 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (modern paper) + 47 + i (modern paper); [1-47]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Early foliation in ink, 143-146; [1-2] 3-43; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 29-32, 97-138, indicates these works were once part of a larger collection, or perhaps from different collections.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern leather, splitting at upper hinge, lower cover detached.

Layout

Written in 21-22 (f. 1-4) and 28 (f. 5-47) long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.

Decoration

Illuminated Madonna and child, in gold, green, blue, red, and black, 8 cm. high (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials (f. 1v, 3r-v, 4r) in green, red, and blue; second section rubricated, with red 2- and 3-line initials (f. 5r and 30v).

Script

Written in a Gothic book script by two different hands, the first (f. 1-4) from the early 13th century, the second (f. 5-47) from the second half of the 13th century (Zacour-Hirsch); marginal annotations in other hands.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 29 June 1938, lot 538.
   
• Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952).
   
• Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Monasticism and religious orders--Rules--Early works to 1800
• Asceticism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Sermons
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Illumination
• French
• France
• Collection of Sermons
• Theology
• Devotion

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Exposition on the Lord?s Prayer, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Beati qui lugent, f. 1v
• fol. 5r — Commentary on monastic rules, f. 5r
• fol. 30v — Speculum monarchum beati Bernardi, f. 30v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Miniature, Madonna and child, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial V, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Decorated intial, Initial S, f. 4r