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Title

Liber IV sententiarum (Four Books of Sentences)

Authors

• Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160 (https://viaf.org/viaf/51797933)

Other related names

• Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/100251489)
• Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/73993931)
• Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, earl of, 1797-1878, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/59453999)
• Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/55959601)
• 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 170
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1598993
• deRicci: 139

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France
Italy

Summary

This volume contains Peter Lombard's Liber IV sententiarum (Four Books of Sentences) in two neat columns of text. It is embellished with large decorated initials at important divisions in the text, such as the start of the prologue and of each individual book (fols. 1r, 3r, 63r, 65r, 116v, and 156v). Its wide margins have been filled with copious notes and annotations in a number of contemporary and later hands, in both ink and drypoint. Also in drypoint are a series of remarkable marginal drawings. Their subjects appear to be entirely unrelated to the text, and include people (fols. 100r and 111r), ships (fols. 65v, 66r, and 98r), animals (fols. 76v and 111r), birds (77r), fish (98r), a number of crowned figures (fols. 102v and 159r), geometric sketches (fols. 100r and 165v), and a mermaid (103r). The parchment itself bears evidence of historic damage and repairs (fol. 17, for example, has been cut through entirely and only partially patched up). The earliest known owner of this volume is Pope Clement XI (1649-1721), who is identified by a dedication written in gold on white silk (flyleaf 3).

Notes

• Early repairs to parchment throughout
   
• Some leaves cut or otherwise damaged
   
• Loose fragment of parchment between fols. 81 and 82
   
• Marginal note listing the nine orders of angels on fol. 73r
   
• The marginal drawings in drypoint are not visible in the digital images
   

Extent

Iii+219+iii; 370 x 264 mm bound to 384 x 285 mm

Foliation

Occasionally foliated in pencil, lower left recto; foliated consistently in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (4), 3 (8), 4 (10), 5 (8), 6 (14), 7 (6), 8 (10), 9-10 (6), 11 (16), 12-13 (4), 14 (16), 15 (4), 16 (2), 17-18 (10), 19 (6), 20-21 (12), 22 (18), 23 (8), 24-25 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century green morocco, gilt tooled decoration, gilt edges, marble paper pastedowns and end leaves; stamped in gold on spine: "Liber Sententiarum"

Layout

Two columns of forty lines; lead point ruling with columns for marginal gloss, pricking visible; evidence of trimming; written area: 203 x 136 mm

Decoration

Six large decorated initials, two unfinished; small blue initials with red pen-work decoration throughout; occasional marginal drawings in drypoint; manicules throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Pope Clement XI (early eighteenth century); Joseph Barrois (sold 1849); Earl of Ashburnham (sold 1901); George Dunn of Wooley Hall (ex-Libris of George Dunn of Wooley Hall on inside front cover; sold 1913 to Tregaskis); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalog entries pasted on recto of first end leaf; pencil notations: "Ashburnham-Barrois sale," "Cor sub sch 1849," "P&N GD June 1901," and "appears to have found its way to Italy by the 15th century if not earlier;" presentation inscription to Pope Clement XI (1700-1721) in silk endleaf: "Sanctiss[imo] Ac Beatiss[imo] Patri Clementi Vndecimo Pont[ifex] Opt[imus] Maxi[mus] Iamdvdvm Votiva Peregrinatione Lavrentanam Domvm Cogitanti."
   

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. 2050, no. 139.
• 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. 184, no. 170.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 14th century
• French
• France
• Gothic
• Gloss
• Damage
• Manicules
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber IV sententiarum; incipit: Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra cum paupercula in gazo filacium domini mittere… [fol. 1r]; explicit: ... sedentes per media ad pedes usque via duce peruenit. [fol. 218v]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Two print catalog entries
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Silk flyleaf with record of ownership by Pope Clement XI
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 49r — Marginal drawing, three figures, one armed with a spear, one armed with a crossbow shooting the third
• fol. 56v — Marginal drawing, ship
• fol. 57r — Marginal drawings, head and hand
• fol. 60r — Marginal drawing, ship
• fol. 63r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 65r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 74r — Marginal drawing, head
• fol. 116v — Decorated initial C (unfinished)
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Two print catalog entries
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Silk flyleaf with record of ownership by Pope Clement XI