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

Title

Bible Commentary

Authors

• Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 420 (http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024)
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. (http://viaf.org/viaf/90637919)

Other related names

• Horatius Bosner, D. D., former owner
• Walter Raglan Hubbard (1890), former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 47
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 128

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains a collection of commentaries on the Bible, including several works by Saint Jerome and an unidentified text.

Notes

• All paper including flyleaves is frame ruled; text ends on fol. 146 but the last two blank leaves are foliated
   

Watermark

Bull's head surmounted by a rose - Briquet No. 14, 777?

Extent

Iii+148; 203 x 144 mm bound to 214 x 153 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Support

Paper

Binding

Nineteenth-century half brown Russia leather with marbled paper over pasteboard; corner tipped in leather

Layout

One column of thirty-one lines, frame ruled in ink or lead

Decoration

Two- and three-line red initials throughout; some texts have running titles

Script

Gothic

Provenance

• Horatius Bosner, D. D.; Walter Raglan Hubbard (1890); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936.
   

Related resources

• 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. 53, no. 47.

Subjects topical

• Bible -- Commentaries

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Treatise
• Gothic
• Scripture
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Expositio in Canticum canticorum; incipit: Osculet[ur] me oscula oris sin quia melio[r]a su[n]t ubera tua vino fragranta ungu[en]t[i]s optimus. Ad evidentiam huius libri vz [?] qui cantica conticarum minicipat[ur]; explicit: Ex sit est finis. Sit laus deo m[er]c[e]s
• fol. 25r — Theological treatise beginning: Credo deum omnia posse . . .; incipit: Credo deum omnia posse . . .
• fol. 32v — Unidentified short text about the Seven Sins
• fol. 37r — S. Hieronymus, Contra Jovinianum; incipit: Pauci admodu[m] su[n]t dies …; explicit: … luxuriam susceperu[n]t. Explicit liber 2.
• fol. 106r — S. Hieronymus, Contra Rufinum; incipit: Lectis l[itte]ris prude[n]tie tue, quib[us] i[n] me i[n]veheris; explicit: … refestinante eo qui ad te remeabat, malui paucis ad te qua[m] ad alios.
• fol. 110v — Lucianus, Compariatio Alexandri, Hannibalis et Scipionis, translated from Greek into Latin by Aurispa; incipit: Cum in rebus …; explicit: … et deo scula[n]s
• fol. 115r — S. Hieronymus, De prima essentia divinatis Dei; incipit: Omnipotens dues …; explicit: … signisicabat
• fol. 123v — S. Hieronymus, De XV signis Judicii; incipit: Maria om[n]ia i[n] altitudine[m] exaltabu[n]t[ur]; explicit: … mortuis longe ante defunctis
• fol. 125r — Seneca. Proverbia, alphabetice; incipit: Adquisitio quae honestati non …; explicit: Podiari sple[n]doru[m] sup[er]at qui sapie[n] sple[n]doru[m] chorus
• fol. 128r — Excerpt from Petrus de Riga, Aurora; incipit: Hec sunt missa dece[n] …; explicit: … mala q[uae] q[uaque] p[atet] ut
• fol. 129r — Florilegia from Church Fathers (fol. 129r-146v); incipit: Nemo t[ibi] Chr[istum] auferre, nisi te illi ip[s]e auferas; explicit: Origin[u]s: ecce m[u]l[ie]r[caput] pec[cat]i arma dya[bol]i expulsion pa[ra]disi dilecti m[at]e[r] corrupt[t]io legis antiq[ae]
• fol. 129r — Florilegia from Ambrosius
• fol. 129v — Florilegia from Sermons of Jerome
• fol. 130r — Florilegia from Augustine
• fol. 134r — Florilegia from Jerome
• fol. 137r — Florilegia from Gregory
• fol. 139v — Florilegia from Bernard
• fol. 145v — Florilegia from Chrysostom

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Three-line red initial O
• fol. 1v — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 1v — Three-line red initial N
• fol. 2r — Three-line red initial E
• fol. 3r — Three-line red initial I
• fol. 3r — Three-line red initial S
• fol. 4r — Three-line red initial E
• fol. 4r — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 4v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 5r — Three-line red initial A
• fol. 6r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 7r — Three-line red initial D
• fol. 7r — Three-line red initial L
• fol. 7v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 7v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 8r — Three-line red initial U
• fol. 8v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 9v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 9v — Two-line red initial W
• fol. 10r — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 10v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 11v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 12v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 13r — Three-line red initial P
• fol. 13v — Three-line red initial S
• fol. 14r — Three-line red initial C
• fol. 14v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 15r — Three-line red initial Q
• fol. 15v — Three-line red initial U
• fol. 15v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 16r — Three-line red initial A
• fol. 25r — Three-line red initial C
• fol. 32v — Blank space left for initial
• fol. 37r — Five-line red initial P
• fol. 74r — Five-line red initial S
• fol. 110v — Three-line red initial C
• fol. 115r — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 125r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 125r — Two-line red initial B
• fol. 125v — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 125v — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 125v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 126r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 126v — Two-line red initial H
• fol. 126v — Two-line red initial I
• fol. 126v — Two-line red initial K
• fol. 126v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 127r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 127r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 127r — Two-line red initial O
• fol. 127r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 127r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 127v — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 127v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 127v — Two-line red initial T
• fol. 127v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 128r — Two-line red initial H
• fol. 128r — Three-line red initial P
• fol. 129r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 130r — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 134r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 137r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 139v — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 145v — Two-line red initial I