[Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160. Sententiarum libri IV.

Peter Lombard.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Percy Dobell, 1911.

Physical Description:

150 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 339 x 254 (233 x 160) mm bound to 354 x 255 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [between 1360 and 1425]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Unidentified Augustinian commentary on the first book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard, from the middle of Distinction 1 (first leaf is lacking) through Distinction 11, followed by Distinction 19.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Foliation: Parchment, 150; [1-150]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 66-69 lines; ruled in lead.

Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by one or several closely related hands.

Decoration: Illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink, green, black, and yellow at the beginning of each section (f. 39r, 63r, 76r, 87v, 97r, 102v, 105r, 130v, 139r, 145v); red or blue initials with contrasting penwork ornamentation; paragraph marks in red.

Binding: Contemporary calf over wooden boards.

Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) between 1360 (based on the latest commentator cited; Jeffrey Witt, Calix O'Hara, Kjerstin Burdiek) and the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Lacks one leaf at the beginning, many leaves between f. 149-150 (sections 12-18), and final leaf from section 19 (incomplete at end?).

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. 1 (Ms. Latin 2).

Not identified in F. Stegmüller, Repertorium commentariorum in sententias P. L., Würzburg, 1947.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 727.

OCLC:

155985515

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