(Q9381)
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Roberts, Hugh, 17th century
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Hurleston, Charles
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Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Jones, Thomon Simon
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Manuals (instructional materials)
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Catholic Church--Clergy--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Pastoral theology--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
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Pastoral theology--Catholic Church
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Sacraments--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
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[between 1400 and 1425]
15. century
1400Gregorian
1425Gregorian
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Extent: 193 leaves : parchment ; 253 x 182 (194 x 143) mm bound to 265 x 190 mm
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Ms. codex.
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On file in the Library is a three-page description of the manuscript and discussion of its contents by Peter Collins and Ruth J. Dean of the University of Pennsylvania, dated May 1974. It is accompanied by photographs and materials describing the cathedral of St. Deiniol in Bangor, Wales.
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Welsh ownership notes and an abraded ownership note at the end of the volume (f. 193v).
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Title from spine and explicit (f. 177v). The author's name is given on the spine and in the Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue as John de Burgh.
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Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Humane condicio nature iam senescente mundo de cursu temptoris [sic] continue vergens ... (f. 177v) Et sic tractatus ite [sic] sub denario numero partium terminatur.
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Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 193 + i (modern paper); 1-7¹², 8¹⁰, 9-14¹², 15¹²(-1), 16¹², 17⁴; [1-193]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Remnants of trimmed signatures in red ink visible in the lower right recto corner of a few leaves, for example in quire 2 (f. 13r, 14r), quire 9 (f. 99r), and quire 11 (f. 119r). Catchwords in an enlarged Gothic textualis script...
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Layout: Written in 2 columns of 45 lines.
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Origin: Written in England or Wales in the first quarter of the 15th century.
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Decoration: 7-line initial in blue and red with penwork ornamentation and decorated border (f. 1r). Blue initials with red and blue ornamentation, paragraph markers and rubrication found throughout.
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Binding: 20th-century American olive cloth over cardboard (rebound after 1978 for the Lea Library, University of Pennsylvania); formerly 19th-century vellum over thin boards (Collins and Dean).
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Script: Written in Gothic cursive script with the first line of each chapter in Gothic textualis, by a single hand.
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Sold by bookseller Thomas Kerslake (Bristol) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 20547, 1858 (Phillipps note, f. ii recto).
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Formerly owned by the church of St. Deiniol (cathedral) in Bangor, Wales, 15th century (Hic liber pertinet ad ecclesie sancti dainellio, f. 193v).
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Formerly owned in the 17th or 18th century by Hugh Roberts (signature dated 1672, f. 89r; partial signature, f. 193r); Charles Hurleston (partial signature, f. 12v; signature, f. 158v-159r; related family note "John Hurleston, Not his Booke, 1690," f. 36v); and Thomon Simon Jones (signature, f. 158v) or Simon Jones (signature, f. 168r).
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Sold at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London) in Part 7 of the sale of manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 20 March 1895, lot 106, to bookseller James and Mary Lee Tregaskis (London).
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Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
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Purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1896 (signature, f, ii recto).
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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