(Q2492)
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Probably the Benedictine monastery of San Domenico in Sora (see below); Ernst F. Detterer (1888-1947), bought in July 1931 from Emil Hirsch, bookseller in Munich; bought from Detterer’s estate in 1948 by George A. Poole, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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Saint Dominic [of Foligno (d. 1031)], in litany
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Saint Restituta, in litany
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s. XII(1); 1100-1150
12. century
1100Gregorian
1150Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in seventeenth- or eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboards, paper pastedowns, spine title in manuscript Psalterium Vaticanum in a grey cloth case.
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Other decoration, ff. 1-108: Capitals touched in red, 2-line initials throughout in red, a few other colours added (e.g., on fols. 71r, 73v and 80r); eight large decorated initials (fol. 10r, Domine in virtute, psalm 20; fol. 17r, Gaudere iusti, for Exsultate iusti, psalm 32; fol. 27r, Deus noster refugium, psalm 45; fol. 34v, Deus repulisti, psalm 59; fol. 44r, Ut quid, psalm 73; fol. 53r...
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Script, ff. 1-108: Beneventan.
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Layout, ff. 1-108: Ruled apparently in plummet, 24 lines (fols. 73– 74 and most leaves from fol. 96 onwards with 26 lines), written-space 180 mm. by 93 mm., text beginning above top line.
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Manuscript note: The little dukedom of Sora had a complicated relationship with the papacy. It was seized by Pius II (1458-64), restored by Sixtus IV (1471-84), and purchased by Gregory XIII (1572-85). The manuscript might have passed through the papal library, which may explain the seventeenth-century spine title Psalterium Vaticanum but this could also mean no more than a superficial...
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 603; Halporn 1961, esp. pp. 220-24; Faye and Bond 1962, p. 179; Lowe 1962, p. 216; Brown 1978, p. 279; Brown 1995, p. 14, n. 2; Baroffio 1999, p. 25.
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ff. 1-108: Other manuscripts written in Beneventan minuscule from San Domenico in Sora are Vatican, BAV, Cod. Reg. Lat. 334, and Oxford, Bodleian, MS Douce 127. Both invoke Saint Dominic in their litanies, fols. 31r and 118r respectively. It is likely that Poole 19 was made in Sora itself, although the late Virginia Brown noted that the hand looks more like that associated with the...
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ff. 1-108: Latin.
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ff. 1-108: Includes canticles and litany. Opens imperfectly imperfectly at psalm 6: 4, followed by the canticles, marked up later for liturgical use, a litany, and short prayers (for oneself, fol. 97v, for weekday use, fol. 101r, etc.); a replacement leaf with the opening of the Office of the Dead, now fol. 100, may reflect a final text, once at the end. The names of monks and hermits open...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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