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Title

De differentia translationis nostrae ab hebraica littera veteris testamentum

Authors

• Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349 (http://viaf.org/viaf/95296771)
• Girolami, Remigio de' (http://viaf.org/viaf/5320464)

Other related names

• Mrs E. J. Hooper, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 246
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany?

Summary

This manuscript, made in Germany in the fourteenth century, represents an early copy of works by the Franciscan biblical scholar Nicholas of Lyra (d. 1349). It contains his comparison of the Latin Vulgate and Hebrew texts of the Old Testament (fols. 1r-79v), a tract "against Jews" (fols. 80r-99v), and a commentary on Paul's Epistle to Titus (fols. 100r-120r). It also contains an allegorical concordance of the Old and New Testaments (fols. 121r-182v), perhaps by Remigio de' Girolami or Hugh of Saint Victor. The text itself is simply adorned with red initials, two of which have been embellished with brown pen-work flourishes (fol. 1r; perhaps by a later hand). On fol. 3v is a diagram of Noah's Ark. The different compartments of the Ark are labelled "habitacione homines et avium" (quarters for people and birds), "animalia mitia" (domesticated animals), "animalia inmitia" (undomesticated animals), "apotheca herbarum" (vegetable storage), "apotheca fructum" (fruit storage), and "sentina" (bilge).

Notes

• Marginal notes and annotations in a contemporary and later hands
   
• Evidence of historic damage and repairs to parchment
   
• Two folios excised between fols. 18v and 19r
   

Extent

I+182+i; 286 x 206 mm bound to 300 x 222 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10), 2 (8), 3-9 (12), 10 (10), 11 (8), 12 (10), 13 (12), 14 (14), 15 (12), 16 (14)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Contemporary catchwords on fols. 10v, 90v, 102v, 112v, 156v

Binding

Repaired 1972 (see inside back cover); post-medieval wooden boards with brown leather spine; edges stained blue; evidence of clasps; stamped on spine "NICOLAUS DE LYRA DE MYSTERIIS SCRIPTURE SACRE"

Layout

One column of thirty-six lines; ruled in ink; pricking visible; written area: 219 x 132 mm

Decoration

Two colored initials with pen-work decoration on fol. 1r; numerous colored initials throughout

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• "Mrs E. J. Hooper" inscribed in pencil on fol. 1r; George S. Pepper Fund, Free Library of Philadelphia (per inscription on fol. 1r)
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• Commentary
• 15th century
• German
• Diagrams
• Gothic
• Missing leaves
• Germany
• Scripture

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tractatus de differentia nostrae translationis ab ebraica ("The difference between our translation and the Hebrew [text of the Old Testament]"); incipit: Sapientiam scribe in tempore vacuitatis... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ... doctrina apud iudeos modernos magis autentica reputatur. ic. [fol. 79v]
• fol. 80r — Contra Judeos; incipit: Queritur utrum per scripturas a iudeis... [fol. 80r]; explicit: ...iam baptisti adnomitum venertuntur. [fol. 99v]
• fol. 100r — Commentary on Paul's Epistle to Titus; incipit: Potens sic exhortari in doctrina sana et eos qui contradicunt arguere... [fol. 100r]; explicit: ...per hoc quod obiectiones suas in aperto mendacio terminavit [fol. 120r]
• fol. 121r — Concordiae allegoriarum et moralitatum veteris et novi Testamenti; incipit: In precedentibus, premissa descriptione originis et discretionis artium et quorumdam... [fol. 121r]; explicit: ...largitur inmutabulis et summe bonus deus. Finito libro sit laus et gratia Christo. [fol. 182v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Hand-written description in French, on paper label (eighteenth/nineteenth century?)
• Inside front cover — Hand-written description in English, on paper label (twentieth century)
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 1r — Notation in pencil
• fol. 3v — Diagram, Noah's Ark
• Inside back cover — Notation in pencil