Bryn Mawr College, MS 5

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16508

Shelfmark:

MS 5

Title:

Commentarius in librum II sententiarum petri lombardi

Commentary on Sentences

Author:

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274

Bonaventure WIKIDATA

Place:

Eastern Germany or Poland

Germany TGN

Poland TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: viii+495; 308 x 208 mm bound to 329 x 226 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Donadski, Matthew (Donadzkus, Mattaeo Ant.)

Matthew Donadski WIKIDATA

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Note:

Several leaves removed, probably at the time of binding, leaving behind stubs of paper, but no loss of text
First eight leaves, containing index, counted as flyleaves; fol. 34 torn out leaving stub with traces of writing; no corresponding loss of text (stub has been imaged and included in folio count); number 386 repeated in foliation; number 413 skipped in foliation
Extensive marginalia in contemporary hands
Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century shelfmark in ink on upper margin of fol. 1r: "N.18. B. 4."
Written by several scribes in gothic cursive above the top line
Fragments of liturgical music used as guards before fol. 1, and between fols. 476-477 and fols. 482-483
Binding: Original binding of wooden boards covered in pigskin; five metal bosses on each cover with two rectangular clasps on the upper board and leather straps on the lower; chain attachment at bottom of lower board missing with piece of board; gold-tooled on spine: "BONAVENTURA/ COMM. IN 2 LIB./ SENTENTIARUM/ MS./ 1454."
Layout: Single column, thirty-one to thirty-nine lines with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines in lead; prickings for bounding lines visible in outer three margins; written area: 220 x 140 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: Major and minor text divisions marked by one- to five-line red ink initials; larger initials with terminals ending in foliage serifs; running headings on verso, in black; guide letters for decorator visible beside or inside initials
Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 434, no. 5.
Related resource: 1831 - Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851 - Interesting collection of manuscripts upon vellum and paper: recently purchased from the monasteries of Agen in Gascony, Lamspring in Germany, and another importation ; together with some curious English articles from the collection of the late W. Hamper, Esq. and Dr. Price, lot 11460
Related resource: 1831-05-20 - Sotheby and Son - Catalogue of a valuable collection of autograph letters of distinguished persons, original documents, &c. ... to which is added, a valuable collection of Greek and Latin manuscripts ...., lot 188
Provenance: Thorn [Torun], Franciscan Monastery

Keyword:

Poland

Fifteenth century

Germany

Theology

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS05.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS5/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College