Collection ID: 0054 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Juvenal's Satires

Authors

• Juvenal (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79060985)
• William of Conches (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83217766)

Other related names

• Antoine Loisel, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89665334)
• Le Peletier de Rosanbo Family, former owner
• Marie-Caroline of Bourbon, Duchess of Berry, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007564)
• Marie-Henry-Adolphe Bossange, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90025885)
• Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois of Lille, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97040610)
• Thomas Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham, former owner
• Bernard Quaritch Ltd., former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50050524)
• Henry Walters, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr94027104)

Call number

W.20
(Baltimore, Walters Art Museum)

Publisher

Walters Art Museum

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern France

Summary

This twelfth-century copy of Juvenal's Satires includes an early gloss on Books I and II, attributed to William of Conches, which was added early in the life of the manuscript. Additional early glosses on the text by different hands appear throughout.

Notes

• Parchment, medium to thick goatskin showing significant handling, including smudges and soiling at the lower edges of folios, ink-blot stains, and the last lines of text on many folios appear faded from rubbing; All folios are of a faded yellow to gray color; Fore-edges and lower margins have been trimmed on many folios, sometimes extensively (see fols. 7, 9, 11, 37, and 54); Trimming appears to have been started on fol. 55 but halted and later mended by the Walters Art Museum's conservation laboratory; Prickings visible on fore-edges of folios; Occasional holes in parchment or evidence of flaws in the goatskin; Edges of folios show traces of red pigment
   

Extent

13.5 cm wide by 22.0 cm high bound to 14.5 cm wide by 23.0 cm high

Foliation

iii+55+iii

Collation

Formula: Quires 1-6: 8 (fols. 1-48 ); Quire 7: 8, lacking third folio (fols. 49-55)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords appear in the lower-right corners of the last versos of each quire, written in text-hand with brown ink; Quires are numbered in roman numerals at the bottom center of the last verso of each quire

Binding

The binding is not original; Rebound in France in ca. 1600 with parchment over pasteboard; Spine includes four ribs; "Iuve- / nalis" written in brown ink in the uppermost compartment of the spine

Layout

Columns: 1-3; Ruled lines: 35

Decoration

Incipit "S" on fol. 1r rendered in blue ink and red outline with floral motif; First letters of major text divisions marked in red ink with decorative, calligraphic forms; Text in brown ink

Script

Transitional Carolingian miniscule; Rustic capitals and uncials used at the beginning of lines of poetry

Provenance

• Produced in the last quarter of the twelfth century, probably in northeastern France.
   
• Possibly owned by Saint-Pierre at Beauvais in the thirteenth century [Based on the inscription "Officialis curie parisensis capitulo Sancti Petri" in the upper-left corner of fol. 55v.; The first three words of the same inscription (abbreviated) appear in the upper-right and bottom-left of fol. 55r and date to the fourteenth century, indicating continued ownership; The inscription in same hand in upper-right corner of fol. 15r reads "Omnibus presentes litteras inspecturis uel audituris. Officialis curie parisensi Salutem in domino;" At the top center of fol. 55v is the inscription "Officiali ambianensis episcopo salutem," written in a hand resembling that on fol. 15r].
   
• Antoine Loisel (1539-1596) [See the signature on fol. 55v, written vertically at the center of the page].
   
• The Le Peletier de Rosanbo (or Rosambo) family in the eighteenth or early-nineteenth century [See the first bookplate on the front paste down].
   
• Owned by the Duchess of Berry in the early-nineteenth century [See the second bookplate on the front pastedown, which reads "Bibliothèque de Rosny," referring to the Château de Rosny at Seine-et-Oise].
   
• Sold by the Duchess of Berry at auction in Paris (Lot no. 2419), February 20, 1837, for 210 francs to Marie-Henry-Adolphe Bossange (1797-1862).
   
• Acquired by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois of Lille between 1837 and 1849 [The collection number 129 is written on a green leather label at the base of the spine, over which 192 was later written].
   
• Sold by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois at auction in Paris, 1849, to the Earl of Ashburnham.
   
• Sold by the Earl of Ashburnham at Sotheby's auction in London (Lot no. 317), June 12, 1901, to Bernard Quaritch Ltd., a London bookseller.
   
• Purchased by Henry Walters from Quaritch between 1902 and 1931.
   
• Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest.
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, S. and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and RenaissanceManuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H.W.Wilson Company, 1935, p. 833, cat. no. 448.
• Klibansky, Raymond. "Report on the Progress of the 'Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi.'" Warburg Institute Annual Report (1946-1947): 12.
• Klibansky, Raymond. "Annual Report, 1947-1948." Proceedings of theBritish Academy 34 (1948): 9.
• Gregory, Tullio. "Anima mundi. La filosofia di Guglielmo di Conches e lascuola di Chartres." Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di filosofia dell'Università diRoma 3. Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1955, p. 27
• Jeauneau, Edouard. "L'usage de la notion d'integumentum à travers lesgloses de Guillaume de Conches." In Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. Vol. 1. Eds. F. Edward Cranz and Paul Oskar Kristeller. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1960, pp. 192-193.
• Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 196, cat. no. 448.
• Miner, D., V. I. Carlson, and P. W. Filby, eds. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-Part Exhibition Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Peabody Institute Library, and the Walters Art Gallery, June 6-July 18, 1965.Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1965, cat. no. 20.
• Friedman, John B. "Pandarus' Cushion and 'pluma Sardanpalli." The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 75/1-2 (1976): 41-55; p. 45 (n. 13).
• Early Manuscripts and Illuminated Leaves. Laurence Witten Rare Books 12.Southport: Laurence Witten Rare Books, 1980, cat. no. 25.
• Marti, B. M. Review of Bradford Wilson, ed., Guillaume de Conches: Glosae in Iuvenalem. Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 27, no. 1-2 (1984):184-187.
• Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the WaltersArt Gallery. Vol. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp.20-22, cat. no. 8.
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• Santorelli, Biagio. "Trent'anni di studi giovenaliani (1977-2007): I parte." Bollettino di studi latini 38 (2008): 119-194; p. 127.
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Keywords

• French
• Gloss
• Humanistic
• Romanesque
• France
• 12th century
• Literature — Poetry
• Flemish
• Flanders

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Satires; incipit: Semper ego auditor tantum nunquamne reponam Vexatus toties rauci theseide codri
• fol. 1r — Gloss attributed to William of Conches; incipit: Semper ego etcetera. In ista prima satyra agit iuuenalis duo; in principio reprehendit poetas inutiliter scribentes; deinde ostendit quare plus hoc genus carminis scribat quam aliud.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial "S," 6 lines