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Gilbert de la Porrée
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Cistercian abbey of Cambron, north of Mons, Hainault (now in Belgium), founded c. 1148; doubtless the Gilebertus . . . Super Epistolas Paulirecorded at Cambron in 1641 and the gillebertus Super epistolas Sti Pauli Completerecorded at Cambron in 1782 (Sanderus 1641, I, p. 355; Planke 1938, p. 55, no. 168).
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the abbey was suppressed in 1789 and the monks finally left in 1797; at least 34 manuscripts from Cambron were bought c. 1823 from P. J. De Mat (d. 1828), bookseller in Brussels, by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MSS 333-62 and 4765-68, together with an unknown number of fragments.
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from the collection of specimen leaves formed by Messrs. W. H. Robinson, who bought the residue of the Phillipps library in 1945-6, sold by them to George A. Poole in 1947, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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s. XII(2); 1150-1199
12. century
1150Gregorian
1199Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, One leaf: ‘P’ ('Paulus et), 166 mm. by 30 mm. with a full-width panel enclosing the opening words of the text, initial includes an ostrich holding a snake.
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Other decoration, One leaf: Biblical lemmata in the commentary underlined in red, running-titles, chapter numbers and small initials in text alternately in red and blue; two large illuminated initials on verso, ‘P’ (Philipenses), 62 mm. by 25 mm., and ‘P’ ('Paulus et), 166 mm. by 30 mm. with a full-width panel enclosing the opening words of the text, all illuminated in colours and burnished gold.
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Script, One leaf: Proto-gothic Textura, square; two sizes.
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Layout, One leaf: 2 columns, ruled in plummet for 53 lines but the text broken into consecutive blocks of text (written on alternate ruled lines) and commentary (written on the ruled lines themselves), each column 243 mm. by 70 mm. with 8 mm. between columns, prickings in outer margins. The manuscript represented by Poole 136 was already out of date when it was made. The arrangement of the...
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Manuscript note: The manuscript represented by Poole 136 was already out of date when it was made. The arrangement of the pages, with successive column-width blocks of text, alternating the biblical (in large script) and the Gloss or commentary (in smaller script), is apparently unique among copies of Gilbert de la Porrée. It was invented around 1160 for Peter Lombard’s Magna glossatura (as in...
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Bibliography: De Hamel 2004, p. 39, no. 12b.
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One leaf: The use of gold is not characteristic of Cistercian book production, and the opulence of the manuscript is not typical of the manuscripts assumed to have been decorated in Cambron itself, as described by Glorieux-De Gand 1990b. The book is likely to have been made elsewhere, perhaps in France, and acquired by Cambron after it was written. Tiny sewing-holes beside and above the...
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One leaf: Latin.
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One leaf: The leaf opens in the biblical reading for Ephesians 6: 7, followed by the prologue to Philippians (Stegmüller no. 728) and the text of Philippians to 1: 4, all interspersed with the Media glossatura. At least eight detached leaves from the manuscript were in the Phillipps collection, all with illuminated initials. In their original sequence, they are: 1, opening of Romans...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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