University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 686

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DS ID:

DS1590

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 686

Title:

Abbreviation of Peter of Tarentaise's commentary on Peter Lombard's Sententiarum, libri IV

Commentary on Sentences

Author:

Rothwell, William de

William Rothwell WIKIDATA

Place:

France or Germany

France TGN

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1270 and 1280

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, color illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 139 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 167 x 122 (127 x 91) mm bound to 170 x 125 mm

Former Owner(s):

Lyell, James P. R. 1871-1948

James Lyell WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: [1-23], I-LXXII, LXXIIII-CXVI, [139]; contemporary foliation in red and blue Roman numerals, upper center verso; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; framed catchwords at the end of gatherings beginning on f. 47v.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 33-34 lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script by two hands with annotations on the final folio and prayer on the front pastedown in later hands.
Decoration: Rubricated throughout, alternating use of blue and red; 3-line penwork initials in red and blue (f. 24r, 68r, 106r).
Binding: Contemporary pigskin, dyed red, over boards, with remnants of two clasps and leather strap on upper cover.
Origin: Written in northern France or southern Germany, possibly in the southeastern Low Countries (Emery).
Incipit: Queritur utrum theologia sit scientia (f. 1r).
Colophon in a later (14th-15th century?) hand: Explicit excerptum Magistri petri de tarantasia super quator libros sententiarum Qui postea fuit Magister ordinis electusque est in summum pontificem (f. 139r).
Date in a later hand: In die dorothe lxij [1362] (f. 139r).
Prayer or invocation on inside upper cover lists names of angels and demons beginning, Lamech, Salmalaach, Helmahn...
Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Formerly owned by Jacobus P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Thirteenth century

codices (bound manuscripts)

Theology, Doctrinal

Early works

Sententiarum libri IV (Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3959c86z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania