Description of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 17: Vita s. martini, etc. contributor Marianne Hansen cataloger Dot Porter Council on Library and Information Resources Bryn Mawr College Library These images and the content of Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 17: Vita s. martini, etc. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Bryn Mawr College Library MS 17: Vita s. martini, etc.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. United States Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College Library MS 17 http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms17.shtml This is a fifteenth-century manuscript from Northern Italy, possibly Verona, which contains Sulpicius Severus' Life of Saint Martin and his Dialogues; Gregory of Tours' Life of Saint Martin of Tours; Tituli Metrici de Sancto Martino; and the Life of Saint Zeno. Latin Vita s. martini, etc. Severus, Sulpicius Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint, 538-594 former owner Haddon Hindley, Sir John former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 former owner Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951 1r Sulpicius Severus, Life of Saint Martin, Prologue, Table of Contents [S]EVERVS Desiderio fratri karissimo salutem. Ego quidem frater unanimis libellum quem de uita Sancti Martini scripseram seda sua comprimere et intra domesticos parietes cohibere decreueram Subueniat lapsis memor ipse sue pietatis. 3r Sulpicius Severus, Life of Saint Martin Plerique mortalium studio et glorie seculari innaniter dediti exinde perhennem ut putabant memoriam nominis sui quesierunt. Martinus habrahe sinu letus excipitur. Martinus hic pauper et modicus celum diues ingreditur. 28r Sulpicius Severus, Dialogue I [C]um in unum locum ego et Gallus noster conuenissemus uir mihi et propter Martini memoriam ex illius enim discipulis erat et propter sua merita carissimus Unde prima illius interim mutilando gesta pretereo neque ea attingam que laycus egit ac Monachus nec vero audita ab aliis potius quamque uidi ipse dicturus sum. 46r Sulpicius Severus, Dialogue II [Q]uo primo igitur tempore relictis scolis beato me uiro iunxi paucos post dies euntem ad ecclesiam sequebamur. Uerum quia de Martini uirtutibus nequaquam explicari uniuersa potuerunt, hec nobis hodie audisse sufficiat, cras reliqua dicemus. Ita pariter accepta sponsione surreximus. 57r Sulpicius Severus, Dialogue III [L]ucessit o Galle surgendum est. Nam ut uides et Postumianus instat. Et hic presbiter qui hesterno auditorium amisit. Nec cum maxime flebili uoce gemeremus omnium lacrimis per nostra lamenta commotis, cum magna quidem Martini admiratione sed non minore ex nostris flectibus [sic] dolore discessum est. 68v Gregory of Tours, Life of Saint Martin of Tours [C]lemens trinitas et una diuinitas ut autem per sacramentum cognoscatur. Unitas est ab eo et qui est spiritus sanctus Nos uero de quanto nostro tempore aut fieri uidimus aut factum certe cognouimus silere nequiuimus. 72v Tituli Metrici de Sancto Martino Uenimus en istuc hic nemo personat heu Quarta die ipsius mensis missam deuotissime celebrabis. hoc si feceris et in presenti seculo et in futuro patrocinia illius promerebis. Lege ut credas, crede ut uiuas in eternum. DEO GRATIAS. 77r Life of Saint Zeno Eo tempore quo Ualerianus cum filio Galieno fasces Romani Imperii suscepit quam palam artifex durus nocuit qui magis dolis et regnis quam uiribis confidit protinus sacerdotes apertis inditiis Satam inter filios dei uenisse cognouerunt.

Parchment

 i+90+i; 201 x 140 mm bound to 214 x 150 mm Foliation in ink, upper right recto; some refoliation in pencil, upper right recto

1-6 (10), 7 (12), 8 (10), 9 (8)

Horizontal catchwords centered in lower margin, verso, accompanied by four similar flourishes above, below, and on both sides

Single column, twenty-eight to twenty-nine lines, ruled with single vertical bounding lines, full length, occasionally with single horizontal bounding lines above the ruled lines; prickings in upper and lower margins Humanistic bookhand Multiple scribes Four two-line red initials; spaces for all other initials left unfilled with guide letters for decorator visible; headings and tables of contents in red, almost totally faded Inside front coverBookplate for Sir John Haddon Hindley Inside front coverBookplate: "The Library of Bryn Mawr College, The Gift of Howard L. Goodhart" Inside front coverBookplate for Howard Lehman Goodhart Inside front coverLibrary shelf mark: "533" in ink on paper label Inside front coverCatalogue entry glued in: "5335 SEVERI SULPITII VITA ST. MARTINI, a MS. on vell. in the Roman character, 4to. wooden boards" Inside front coverCatalogue entry glued in #139 Inside front coverNote in pencil: "Census 1684 pencil" Inside front coverNote in pencil: "Feb. 1943. Gift of Howard L. Goodhart" [Flyleaf 1 verso]Note in ink: "533" [Flyleaf 1 verso]Note in pencil: "S. Martinus XVc..." 1rPhillipps number in ink: "Phillipps MS 6732" 3rTwo-line red initial P 4vTwo-line red initial Q 7vTwo-line red initial N 8vTwo-line red initial I Inside back coverNote in pencil: "12884"

Original wooden boards with eighteenth-century blind-tooled leather backing, leather and metal clasp; on spine, gold-tooled: SEU. SVLPITII/ VITA S. MARTINI MSS; On back cover in ink: "Vita B. Martini"

15th century

Verona?, Northern Italy Written in the fifteenth century; the inclusion of the Life of Zeno suggests that it may have been written in Verona, that saint's diocese; early provenance unknown; library shelf mark: "533" in ink and on a paper label on inside front cover; on verso of folio i: "MS 32"; two unidentified catalogue entries glued to inside cover, # 5335 and #139; in lead on inside back cover: "#12884"; in the collection of Sir John Hadden Hindley (1765-1827; bookplate); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 6732 on fol. 1r, listed in the Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum) acquired it in 1834 from Howell and Steward; in the collection of Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate), and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1943 Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Biography 15th century Italian Original binding Italy