Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De quattuor virtutibus caritatis (On the four virtues of charity)

Authors

• Quodvultdeus, Bishop of Carthage, -454? (https://viaf.org/viaf/250796368)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner
• White, Henry, former owner
• LeMare, former owner
• Cockerell, Sidney C., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 20
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 112

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript is an eleventh-century copy of "De quattuor virtutibus karitatis" or "On the Four Virtues of Charity." This text and the other texts contained in the manuscript circulated in the Middle Ages under the name of Saint Augustine, but they have since been attributed to the fifth-century theologian Quodvultdeus of Carthage, who was a follower of Saint Augustine. The back Flyleaf 1 (fol. 48) is a fragment from a twelfth-missal with readings for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost. The leaf was removed from its original book and reused by a later binder. The readings reflect an older liturgy that fell out of use in the later Middle Ages, rendering the missal useless and a good source for recycled parchment.

Notes

• Folios 1 and folios 48 are medieval parchment and are numbered, but both are technically flyleaves; additional flyleaves are modern paper
   

Extent

Iv+46+iv; 305 x 213 mm bound to 317 x 227 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Red morocco, spine and covers decorated with vertical rows of brown stamped rolls decorated with portrait busts and rosettes (spine only); gold-stamped inner edges.. DE QUATTUOR VIRTUTIBUS ST. AUGUSTINE / circa 900 stamped in gold on spine and upper cover.

Layout

One column of twenty-eight lines, hard-point ruling, prickings visible; marginal notes and corrections in contemporary hand; written area: text: 215 x 142 mm; fol. 48r (back Flyleaf 1): columns of thirty-three lines, hard-point ruling; spaces for two to three line initials left blank, one-line initials outlined in red written area: text: 227 x 157 mm

Decoration

Seven large decorated initials (4-6 lines, orange to orange-brown ink)

Script

Caroline minuscule

Provenance

• LeMare (sixteenth century); bookplate of Henry White; sold London, Sotheby's, 1902, no. 91; Sidney C. Cockerell; book plate of George Dunn of Woolley Hall (1864-1912); London, Sotheby's, sale February 13, 1913, no. 387 to Maggs (bookseller); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; fol. 1r (flyleaf): contains partially legible inscription "3e Cotte ..." in seventeenth/eighteenth-century cursive hand, and number "5928" encircled written in nineteenth-century hand; fol. 48r (flyleaf): Signed in partially legible sixteenth-century hand "F... Lemare."
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2044, no. 112.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 26, no. 20.

Keywords

• Collection of Sermons
• Missal
• 11th century
• 12th century
• Christian
• Caroline minuscule
• France
• Church Fathers
• Theology

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. Flyleaf 4 recto; 1r — Partially legible inscription "3e Cotte ..." in seventeenth/eighteenth-century cursive hand, and number "5928" encircled written in nineteenth-century hand
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 46r — Marginalia- face drawing