Sancti Augustini opera quaedam.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Contributor:

Possidius, Saint, active 370-437

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Spurious and doubtful works.

Augustine.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Theology.

History.

Christian heresies--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Christian heresies.

Eutychians--Early works to 1800.

Eutychians.

Manichaeism--Early works to 1800.

Manichaeism.

Priscillianism--Early works to 1800.

Priscillianism.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Sermons, Latin.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

sermons

Manuscripts, Latin -- 12th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 11901 (note, f. 1r).

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1953.

Physical Description:

112 leaves : parchment, color ; 266 x 181 (191 x 118) mm bound to 277 x 191 mm

Place of Publication:

[Pontigny], [11--]

Language Note:

Latin, with some lines of Greek.

Summary:

Comprises works by Augustine; works erroneously attributed to Augustine, including a translation from Aristotle; and works by other authors including Ambrose, Possidius, Orosius, and a letter of Pope John II.

Contents:

1. f.1-9r: De pastoribus / Augustine [incomplete at the beginning]

2. f.9v-23r: De ovibus / Augustine.

3. f.23r-35: De laude et exhortatione viduitatis / Ambrose.

4. f.36r: Retractatio in libro ad Horosium contra Priscillianistas / Augustine.

5. f.36r-37v: Commonitorium ad Sanctum Augustinum de Priscillianistis et Origenis errore / Orosius.

6. f.37v-43r: Responsio ad Orosium de Priscillianistis et Origenis errore / Augustine.

7. f.43r: Retractatio in libro de correctione Donatistarum / Augustine.

8. f.43r-58r: [Liber] de correctione Donatistarum / Augustine.

9. f.58r: Retractatio in libro de fide et operibus / Augustine.

10. f.58r-78v: De fide et operibus / Augustine.

11. f.79-87r: [Liber] de dialectica / Augustine[?]

12. f.87r-102v: Cathegorie translate a Beato Augustino de Greco in Latinum / Aristotle [translation erroneously attributed to Augustine]

13. f.102v-104r: Commonitorium ad universam ecclesiam destinatum sub qua cautela Manichei si conversi fuerint suscipi debeant / Augustine [spurious]

14. f.104r-106r: Epistola de fide contra Euticianistas de duobus naturis in una persona Domini Nostri Iesu Christi / Pope John II.

15. f.106r-109r: Collatio Trinitatis / Augustine [spurious]

16. f.109r-112v: Catalogus operum [Possidius' catalog of Augustine's works, incomplete]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r), added in a later hand.

Incipit and explicit for item 14: Incipit epistola Johannis Papae urbis Romae de fide contra Euticianistas de duobus naturis in una persona Domini Nostri Iesu Christi. Dominis filiis merito illustribus atque...filii merito illustres atque magnifici.

Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 112 + ii (modern paper); 1⁷(+1 in position 4), 2⁸(single leaves in positions 2 and 7), 3-4⁸, 5⁴, 6-9⁸, 10¹¹(+1 in position 10), 11⁸, 12¹⁰, 13-14⁸; [1-112]; modern foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 32-33 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.

Script: Written in transitional script (or protogothic script) by 4 different hands.

Decoration: Simply decorated initials and rubrics in red.

Binding: Modern leather.

Origin: Written in Pontigny, France, mid-12th century (Helen Zakin).

Three student papers describing this manuscript are in the curatorial file, one undated, one from 1979, and one from 2000 (discussion and analysis, with transcription of the letter of Pope John II, including the information that this letter was published in Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus, series 1, vol. 66, book 1, Paris, 1866).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 14 (Ms. Latin 63).

Publications about:

Complete description and analysis by Zakin, Helen Jackson. "Two Pontigny Manuscripts in American Collections," Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, 1 (1982), pp. 13-30; a copy is in the curatorial file.

Brief description by Paul Werner, "Manuscript Latin 63, University of Pennsylvania Library," Calligraphy Idea Exchange, vol. 2, no. 2, 1984, pp. 38-41; a copy is in the curatorial file.

Cited as:

Sancti Augustini opera quaedam (Oversize Ms. Codex 708). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Contains:

Aristotle. Categoriae.

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. De laude et exhortatione viduitatis.

John II, Pope, -535. Epistola de fide contra Euticianistas de duobus naturis in una persona domini nostra Iesu Christi.

Orosius, Paulus. Commonitorium de errore Priscillianistarum et Origenistarum.

OCLC:

212094479