(Q21054)

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Liber IV sententiarum (Four Books of Sentences)
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Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
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Extent: iii+219+iii; 370 x 264 mm bound to 384 x 285 mm; parchment
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Early repairs to parchment throughout
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Some leaves cut or otherwise damaged
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Loose fragment of parchment between fols. 81 and 82
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Marginal note listing the nine orders of angels on fol. 73r
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The marginal drawings in drypoint are not visible in the digital images
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Binding: Nineteenth-century green morocco, gilt tooled decoration, gilt edges, marble paper pastedowns and end leaves; stamped in gold on spine: "Liber Sententiarum"
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Layout: Two columns of forty lines; lead point ruling with columns for marginal gloss, pricking visible; evidence of trimming; written area: 203 x 136 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
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Decoration: Six large decorated initials, two unfinished; small blue initials with red pen-work decoration throughout; occasional marginal drawings in drypoint; manicules throughout
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2050, no. 139.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 184, no. 170.
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Provenance: Pope Clement XI (early eighteenth century); Joseph Barrois (sold 1849); Earl of Ashburnham (sold 1901); George Dunn of Wooley Hall (ex-Libris of George Dunn of Wooley Hall on inside front cover; sold 1913 to Tregaskis); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalog entries pasted on recto of first end...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Oliver Mitchell
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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