Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Vita s. martini, etc.

Authors

• Severus, Sulpicius (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79129029)
• Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint, 538-594 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n80128596)

Other related names

• Haddon Hindley, Sir John, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50078542)
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99022084)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 17
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms17.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Verona?, Northern Italy

Summary

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.

Extent

I+90+i; 201 x 140 mm bound to 214 x 150 mm

Foliation

Foliation in ink, upper right recto; some refoliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

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

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

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

Binding

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"

Layout

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

Decoration

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

Script

Humanistic bookhand

Multiple scribes

Provenance

• 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
   

Keywords

• Biography
• 15th century
• Italian
• Original binding
• Italy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sulpicius Severus, Life of Saint Martin, Prologue, Table of Contents; incipit: [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; explicit: Subueniat lapsis memor ipse sue pietatis.
• fol. 3r — Sulpicius Severus, Life of Saint Martin; incipit: Plerique mortalium studio et glorie seculari innaniter dediti exinde perhennem ut putabant memoriam nominis sui quesierunt.; explicit: Martinus habrahe sinu letus excipitur. Martinus hic pauper et modicus celum diues ingreditur.
• fol. 28r — Sulpicius Severus, Dialogue I; incipit: [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; explicit: 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.
• fol. 46r — Sulpicius Severus, Dialogue II; incipit: [Q]uo primo igitur tempore relictis scolis beato me uiro iunxi paucos post dies euntem ad ecclesiam sequebamur.; explicit: Uerum quia de Martini uirtutibus nequaquam explicari uniuersa potuerunt, hec nobis hodie audisse sufficiat, cras reliqua dicemus. Ita pariter accepta sponsione surreximus.
• fol. 57r — Sulpicius Severus, Dialogue III; incipit: [L]ucessit o Galle surgendum est. Nam ut uides et Postumianus instat. Et hic presbiter qui hesterno auditorium amisit.; explicit: 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.
• fol. 68v — Gregory of Tours, Life of Saint Martin of Tours; incipit: [C]lemens trinitas et una diuinitas ut autem per sacramentum cognoscatur. Unitas est ab eo et qui est spiritus sanctus; explicit: Nos uero de quanto nostro tempore aut fieri uidimus aut factum certe cognouimus silere nequiuimus.
• fol. 72v — Tituli Metrici de Sancto Martino; incipit: Uenimus en istuc hic nemo personat heu; explicit: 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.
• fol. 77r — Life of Saint Zeno; incipit: Eo tempore quo Ualerianus cum filio Galieno fasces Romani Imperii suscepit; explicit: quam palam artifex durus nocuit qui magis dolis et regnis quam uiribis confidit protinus sacerdotes apertis inditiis Satam inter filios dei uenisse cognouerunt.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate for Sir John Haddon Hindley
• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "The Library of Bryn Mawr College, The Gift of Howard L. Goodhart"
• Inside front cover — Bookplate for Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Library shelf mark: "533" in ink on paper label
• Inside front cover — Catalogue entry glued in: "5335 SEVERI SULPITII VITA ST. MARTINI, a MS. on vell. in the Roman character, 4to. wooden boards"
• Inside front cover — Catalogue entry glued in #139
• Inside front cover — Note in pencil: "Census 1684 pencil"
• Inside front cover — Note 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..."
• fol. 1r — Phillipps number in ink: "Phillipps MS 6732"
• fol. 3r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 4v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 7v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 8v — Two-line red initial I
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in ink: "533"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in pencil: "S. Martinus XVc..."
• Inside back cover — Note in pencil: "12884"