Summa de casibus poenitentia

Item Information

Title:
Summa de casibus poenitentia
Title (alt.):
Interpretatio Evangeliorum. Chapter 49
Arbor consanguinitatis
Sermon 144. Latin
Author:
Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275
Former owner:
Bignon, Jérôme, 1589-1656
Former owner:
Schab, William H.
Contributor:
Caesarius, of Arles, Saint, 470?-542
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Former owner:
Weiss & Co. (Firm)
Date:
[1325?–1375?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Inscriptions
Marginalia
Manuscript waste
Deerskin bindings
Wooden boards
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Canon law--Early works to 1800
Confession (Canon law)--Early works to 1800
Marriage (Canon law)--Early works to 1800
Penance--Early works to 1800
Consanguinity (Canon law)--Early works to 1800
Places:
Germany > Bavaria > Nuremberg
Extent:
104 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 273 x 197 (207 x 140) mm bound to 29 cm, in box 31 cm
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Place of origin:
[Nuremberg?]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank.
2. fol. 1v: Arbor consanguinitatis.
3. fol. 2-103: Summa de casibus (Quoniam ut ait hieronimus ... / ... Explicit summa m[ ]ii magistri raymundi deo gratias. Amen.
4. fol. 103v-104: 15th-century additions.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Germany, possibly Nuremberg, in the mid-14th century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: The Chinot catalogue of 1849 attributes the manuscript to one "Wisinto of Nuremberg," although there is no extant evidence to support this assertion. It is possible that the effaced inscription in the upper margin of f. 2, not legible under ultra-violet light, is the inscription apparently quoted by Chinot: "Summa magistri Raimundi, quam scripsit Wisinto nurembergensis" (Chinot, p. 9, lot 111). Interlinear 15th-century notes on front pastedown, upside-down relative to the text, nota bene and other later notes throughout margins. Early modern inscription and shelfmark on f. 2: "Raimundi Summa 53". Owned in the early seventeenth century by Jérôme Bignon (1589-1656), sold twice with other manuscripts from his collection (Leblanc, 28 March 1837) and Chinot, 8 January 1849, lot 111. Sold by Schab, 1940, lot 61, and Sotheby's London 3 June 1946, lot 190, to Weiss.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs in 1954.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 215
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ... missam ex[emplum?] ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 104 ; 1¹⁰ 2¹² 3-6¹⁰ 7-8¹² 9⁴ 10⁸ 11⁶⁻²⁺² (2 stubs (cancels)) after fol. 103, final two leaves tipped-in singletons) ; catchwords in lower right corner of final verso of each corner in a decorative frame. 16th-/17th-century arabic foliation in black ink, upper right corner of each recto. Modern arabic pencil foliation added to versos, with "r" added to early numbers on rectos. Original roman numerals in brown ink preserved in some upper margins, cross-referencing to numbers in chapter list.
Layout: Two columns, 42 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in light plummet.
Script: Written in a rounded gothic textualis in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two-line red epigraphic capitals throughout. Full-page Arbor consanguinitatis on fol. 1v in brown ink on panels of red, blue and green, head of Christ visible at top, his hands supporting the tree at its base, human figures in each corner, tipped-in but original, now held in place at inner front binding by the mid-11th-century pastedown.
Binding: 15th-century deerskin(?) over boards, blind-fillet border on covers, clasps intact, parchment label on upper cover reads "Summa Raymundi," several old labels on spine, one (17th-century) reads "M. Memb./ I.iii." 11th-century pastedown to inner front cover, a two-column sermon combining Caesarius of Arles, Sermon 144 (Ch. 2, Neminem - evasit (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina CIV:594)) and Epiphanius Latinus, Interpretatio Evangeliorum, ch. 49 (Erikson 1939, p.122:15 Post haec - 123:10 nobis). Leather tab at head of spine integral to cover, with two small holes that probably originally held a bookmark. Inside the rear cover, at the joint, a 15th-century mnemonic for remembering the attributes of the evangelists, written perpendicularly: "Est iohannes avis vitulus lucas leo marcus est hominem matheus quam illa deus."
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: A. Erikson, Sancti Epiphanii Episcopi Interpretatio Evangeliorum (London, 1939); D.G. Morin, Sancti Caesarii Arelatensis Sermones (CCSL CIV) (Turnholt, 1953)
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018694
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.134
MS 1558 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789494