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Title

Super historiam Ihierosolymitanam ... etc. manuscript, ca. 1420.

Authors

• Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240, author.

Other related names

• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.113
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224771

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders or Italy

Summary

Contains Jacques de Vitry's narration of events in the Holy Land in the time of the crusades, with a short treatise on the Eucharist. Also included is a spurious sermon by Augustine; a letter on the institution of anchorites and a treatise on the eremitical life, both attributed to Basil of Caesarea; two descriptions of the Holy Land (the first by Rorgo Fretellus; the second is spuriously attributed to Eugippius); and an unknown work attributed to Rorgo Fretellus.

Notes

• Manuscript mostly on paper; leaf 13 on vellum.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger from rubric of prologue (leaf 26r).
   
• stub between leaves 6 and 7
   
• Edges cut affecting marginalia.
   
• Uniform Title: [Historia Hierosolimitana abbreviata]
   

Extent

Leaves ii + 213 (1-12 (paper), 13 (vellum), 14-212 (paper)) + ii; 215 x 145 mm bound to 230 x 160 mm

Collation

1 (15) (wants 1, 8) (singles: 15), 2-18 (12), 17 (8)

Support

Mixed

Binding

Bound in 19th-century brown morocco gold-tooled goatskin, by Rivière; two single line fillet frames with a leaf, rosette, and fleuron in each corner; board edge tooling and raised bands; size: 230 x 160 mm.

Layout

Written in 33 long lines (dimensions of written space: 145 x 85 mm); frame ruled; marginalia throughout.

Decoration

Four pen-flourished initials, two of which are decorated in red and green, leaves 1r, 14r, 26r and 134r.

Script

Written in Northern Hybrid script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by W.T. Smedley (bookplate). Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM. 15

Subjects topical

• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts
• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Correspondence --Manuscripts
• Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. Correspondence --Manuscripts
• Eugippius --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts
• Catholic Church --Doctrines --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Monasticism and religious orders --History --Middle Ages, 600-1500 --Manuscripts
• Crusades --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Palestine --Description and travel --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Jerusalem --History --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Fretellus, Rorgo, active 12th century. Descriptio Terre Sancte
• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Laus eremiticae vitae
• De miseria carnis
• Tractatus de distantiis locorum Terrae Sanctae
• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379, correspondent
• Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, recipient

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --14th century
• Annotations (Provenance) --14th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• Flemish
• Flanders
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tractatus beati Augustini episcopi de misera uita corporis et anime; incipit: O uita que tantos decepisti, tantos seduxisti ... [f. 1r]; explicit: ... domino nostro Iesu Christo qui cum Patre et Spiritu sancto regnat per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. [f. 4r-4v]
• fol. 4v — Epistola Basilii Cesarienisis episcopi ad Gregorium [s] Nazanzenum super institutione anachoritarum ...; incipit: Agnoui literas tuas, ut enim qui amicorum filios ex ingenita quam per se ferunt ... [f. 4v]; explicit: ... cum gemitu et lacrimis diuinum adiutorium ad ea perficienda, que studiose proponit. Deo gratias. [f. 9v]
• fol. 10r — Tractatus beati Basilii episcopi de uita solitaria; incipit: Libet inter cetera de singularis vite meritis pauca perstringere ... [f. 10r]; explicit: ... ad habitacionem perueniet domus non manufacte sed in celis eterne, sociatus angelicis choris, ipso prestante qui est cum Patre et Spiritu sancto Deus benedictus in secula. Amen. [f. 13r]
• fol. 14r — Descriptio terre sancte, archidyaconus Antiochenus; incipit: Domino suo uenerabili et fratri in Domino R. Dei gratia Toletano comiti R. Fretellus eadem gratia archidiaconus Antiochie ... [f. 14r]; explicit: ... noticiam querere dignatus es, prout sanius potero, sublimitati tue diligenter elucidare non dedignabor. [f. 14v]
• fol. 14v — Vertamus eya stilum nostrum sumentes inicium ab Hebron ...
• fol. 14v — Vertamus eya stilum nostrum sumentes inicium ab Hebron que et Hebron. Hebron olim metropolis ... [f. 14v]; explicit: ... Dauid dicitur Ioseph attestante fabricauit eamque Antoniam uocauit. [f. 25v]
• fol. 25r — [Unknown work attributed to Frater Fretellus]
• fol. 26r — Prologus magistri Iacobi de Vitriaco, Canon. Regularis Episcop. Acconensis, super historiam Iherosolymitanam; incipit: Postquam diuine propitiacionis munificiencia exercitus christiani longamitatem et patiencia clementer respiciens ... [f. 26r]; explicit: ... ad confutacionem infidelium et confusionem impiorum hominum et ad laudem et imitationem bonorum, diligens lector manifeste poterit perpendere. [f. 27v]
• fol. 27v — Capitula
• fol. 29r — [Historia Orientalis, liber primus]; incipit: Terra sancta promissionis Deo amabilis et sanctis angelis uenerabilis et uniuerso mundo admirabilis ... [f. 29r]; explicit: ... a Deo et sancta Romana ecclesia consolacionem et subsidium de die in diem expectantes. [f. 133v]
• fol. 134r — [Liber] secundus in cuius parte prima occidentalium breuiter narratur primum capitulum de corrupcione occidentalis regionis et de ecclesiis occidentalium; incipit: Dum igitur orientalis ecclesia que quondam a finibus terre uenit audire sapienciam Salomonis ... [f. 134r]; explicit: ... sed propter uestustatem forme, singulis [septi]manis renouanda sunt sacramenta. [f. 213r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, William T. Smedley
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 29r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 134r — Decorated initial D