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Title

Summa de virtutibus (Treatise on the virtues); Summa vitiorum (Treatise on the vices)

Authors

• Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271 (http://viaf.org/viaf/41951136)

Other related names

• 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 166
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 146

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This volume, written in France circa 1300, mostly consists of the Summa de vitiis of Guilelmus Peraldus, followed by a shorter treatise on the virtues, with pages of notes bound in at the beginning and end. The text is written in Gothic textualis with several changes of hand and occasional manicules in the side margins and stemmata or lists in the lower margin. Its decoration largely consists of red initials, paragraph marks, and rubrics. A dangling catchword at the end of quire 27 (fol. 222v) suggests that at least one gathering at the end of the Summa de vitiis is missing.

Notes

• Some leaves misbound, including two blanks and seven added leaves of indices
   
• Paper flyleaves, last flyleaf detached
   

Extent

Ii+317+ii; 184 x 134 mm bound to 195 x 140 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; medieval foliation in Roman numerals in top margin, beginning at fol. 5r; one folio (modern 36) not counted in medieval foliation, and two folios, medieval ccxviii and ccxix, are misplaced after medieval ccxxvii (modern 230); references in this record are to modern foliation in pencil

Collation

1-2 (2), 3-8 (8), 9 (2), 10-11 (10), 12-19 (8), 20 (12), 21-30 (8), 31 (2), 32-33 (8), 34 (12), 35 (8), 36-38 (12), 39 (8), 40 (5, +3)

Signatures

Quires 3-21 signed with roman numerals I-XX, quires 28-33 signed with roman numeral I-V, center lower margin of last verso; many partly trimmed away

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords, lower right last verso

Binding

Nineteenth-century wooden boards and black morocco, gilt tooled floral borders on sides, gilt back, gilt edges, in cloth case

Layout

One column of thirty-three to forty-one lines; prickings visible; written area: 156 x 108 mm

Decoration

Capitals, one-line to six-line, mostly two-line and in red, in some brief sections alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork; rubrication and paragraph marks in red

Script

Gothic--textualis

Written by multiple hands

Provenance

• Purchased in Paris, 1397; Rome (according to illegible sixteenth-century note); at the abbey of Moyenmoutiers, 1717 (shelfmark X.1.46); Davis and Orioli, Cat. 19, June, 1917, no. 5; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• Rosenbach Museum and Library, Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and Near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and their Influence, exhibition catalogue. (Knoxville, TN: New Chaucer Society, 1986), pp. 67-69, no. 39.
• 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), pp. 180-81, no. 166.
• 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. 2052, no. 146.

Keywords

• 14th century
• France
• French
• Treatise
• Gothic
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 5r — Guilelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis
• fol. 223v — [Summa de virtutibus]

Decorations

• fol. 16v — Manicule
• fol. 28v — Manicule
• fol. 130v — Manicule
• fol. 155r — Manicule
• fol. 157v — Manicule
• fol. 201r — Manicule
• fol. 276r — Manicule
• fol. 278v — Manicule