Six fragments of Beneventan minuscule from three separate manuscripts

Item Information

Title:
Six fragments of Beneventan minuscule from three separate manuscripts
Description:
Six fragments of Beneventan minuscule removed from bindings and originating in three distinct manuscripts: a single fragment from a manuscript containing portions Psalms 61 and 62; a single fragment from a different manuscript containing a portion of Psalm 118; four fragments from a manuscript copy of St. Augustine, Tractatus in Ioannem.
Former owner:
Schøyen, Martin
Former owner:
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1150–1199]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Manuscript waste
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Early manuscript fragments
Places:
Italy
Extent:
6 items : parchment, 29-66 x 36-109 mm in album 10 x 14 cm
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. Fragment 1. As bound, shows on recto a portion of Psalm 62, line 3-5 ("apparui te tibi ... sic benedicam") and on the version, a portion of Psalm 61, lines 8-10 ("deo est. Sperate ...")
2. Fragment 2. As bound, recto shows a portion of Psalm 118, lines 119-120 ("reputavi ... in bonum non"), verso obliterated.
3. Fragments 3-6. Four small fragments of St. Augustin, Tractatus in Ioannem (123, 4-5), with remains of one column (of two), comprising portions of four lines on each fragment.
Notes:
Ms. fragments.
Title devised by cataloger; catalog record based in part on dealer's description.
Origin: Copied in Southern Italy, second half of the 12th century.
Former and related shelfmarks: Fragment 1 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/4. Apparently from the same parent manuscript as Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, MS CL 216 (ii), a single leaf from a pocket-sized Bible written in single columns. Fragment 2 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/3. Fragments 3-6 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/5. Apparently from the same parent manuscript as Toronto, Virginia Brown Collection, MS. 2.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: All fragments removed from bindings. Offered as a group at Sotheby's, London, (21 June, 1994, lot 5) to Bernard Quaritch. Later in the collection of Martin Schøyen, his MS 1855/3, 1855/4, and 1855/5.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., in May, 2023.
Purchase; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.; 20230519; 2023.31.2.
Notes (object):
Script: Written in Beneventan minuscule, Monte Cassino type.
Decoration: Fragment 5 with portions of a floriated initial in red, yellow, blue, and green.
Binding: Each fragment affixed to a stub; bound in modern tan buckram.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_019159
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.294
Barcode:
39999092211901