Acts; Canonical Epistles; Apocalypse (DS525) (Q2537)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts 9)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Acts; Canonical Epistles; Apocalypse (DS525) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts 9) |
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Perhaps from an institutional library in Chartres dispersed at the French Revolution; Pierre Gélis-Didot (b. 1853), his sale, Paris, Belin-Drouot, 12 April 1897, lot 3; Cecil Mallaby Firth (1878-1931), Egyptologist, with his bookplate; George Dunn (1865-1912), with his booklabel, bought in March 1900, probably from Sydney Cockerell (to judge from Dunn’s pencil note "S.C.C.").
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Dunn sale, Sotheby’s, 11 February 1913, lot 356, to Young; bought the following day by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts collection in 1961.
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s. XIII(1/4); 1200-1225
13. century
1200Gregorian
1225Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in late eighteenth-century French calf, gilt spine, paper endleaves, printed label inside lower cover Relié à Chartres, chez Hamerville Libraire ruë des trois Mailletsi(as reproduced in Gruel 1905, p. 91); in a green cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 1- 160: 10 large illuminated initials in ornamental designs of plant stems and some small lions on panels, painted in colors with infilling in burnished gold (fols. 4r, 79r, 89v, 100r, 107v, 119r, 120v, 121v, 125r and 126r, together with a small illuminated initial on fol. 78r).
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Other decoration, ff. 1- 160: A few small textual initials in red and blue, running-titles in alternating red and blue letters, each gloss beginning with a paragraph-mark alternating red and blue with trailing penwork decoration embellished with sprays in the contrasting color.
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Number of scribes, ff. 1- 160: Three: main scribe, two marginalia hands.
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Script, ff. 1- 160: Gothic Textura.
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Layout, ff. 1- 160: Collation: i#^1+8# (including original flyleaf, foliated ‘1’), ii–ix#^8#, x#^4#, xi–xv#^8#, xvi#^7# [of 8, blank viii canceled after fol. 124], xvii–xx#^8#, xxi#^4#, with horizontal catchwords; ruled in plummet for 44 lines, with the biblical texts in a central column of varying width (written on alternate ruled lines) and the glosses fitted in interlocking blocks on either...
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 619.
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ff. 1- 160: The manuscript has many medieval notes, especially in the Apocalypse, in two main hands, one of the thirteenth century and one of the fourteenth. They include a citation of Aristotle on fol. 80v, “Aristoteles. Meminime a natura duas habuisse aures, os unum” (‘Aristotle: Remember that by nature we are to have two ears but one mouth’), and the marking up of biblical readings for...
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ff. 1- 160: Latin.
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ff. 2r-77v: (Stegmüller no. 11831), with Acts 1 on fol. 4r.
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Explicit, ff. 2r-77v: Fluvius egrediebatur de loco.
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ff. 78r-124r: (Stegmüller no. 11846), with James (fol. 79r), I Peter (fol. 89v), II Peter (fol. 100r), I John (fol. 107v), II John (fol. 119r), III John (fol. 120v) and Jude (fol. 121v).
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Explicit, ff. 78r-124r: Non ita est ordo.
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ff. 126r-159v: (Stegmüller no. 11853).
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Incipit, ff. 126r-159v: virtutum multiplicitas.
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Explicit, ff. 126r-159v: Apocalipsis hec inter reliquos.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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