Periermenias Aristotelis ... [etc.].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Boethius, -524.

Contributor:

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

Beck, Helmut, 1919-2001, former owner.

Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Abbey), former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De interpretatione.

Aristotle.

Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Carolingian--Specimens.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Carolingian.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

De interpretatione (Aristotle).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin -- 9th century.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 11th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

illuminations (paintings)

poems

treatises

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Early works.

Specimens.

diagrams

translations (documents)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by bookseller James Taylor (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ca. 1826.

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2179 (stamped crest inside upper cover; inscription with alternate number 717, f. 1r; label on spine).

Sold as part of the residue of the Phillips collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.

Sold by H. P. Kraus to Helmut Beck (Stuttgart), ms. 3 (embossed label, inside upper cover).

Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Beck Collection, 16 June 1997, lot 3, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg in honor of Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania, 2014.

Physical Description:

64 leaves : parchment ; 204-206 x 172-174 (136-148 x 100-128) mm bound to 219 x 190 mm

Production:

[France], [850?]

Other Title:

De interpretatione.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

9th-century copy of Boethius's Latin translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione, referred to in the manuscript as Periermenias, with the shorter of two commentaries that Boethius wrote on that work. Replacement leaves added in the 11th century to the beginning (f. 1-4) and end (f. 45-64) of the manuscript, in addition to providing the beginning and end of the Boethius (which is probably lacking 2 gatherings between extant gatherings 6 and 7), include the Periermeniae attributed to Apuleius in the medieval period, a poem by Decimus Magnus Ausonius on the seven days of Creation, a sample letter of a monk to an abbot with interlinear and marginal glosses, and other miscellaneous verses, definitions, and excerpts. Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania, has determined that two groups of leaves are misbound; leaves 5-12 (the original order appears to have been 5, 9, 10, 6, 7, 11, 12, 8) and leaves 53-64 (the original order of the leaves appears to have been 61, 62, 53-60, 63, 64).

Contents:

1. f.1r: [Conclusion of a grammatical work, 7-line verse by Eugene II of Toledo, Isidore's definition of rhetoric].

2. f.1v-53r, 61r-62v: Periermenias Aristotelis / a Boetio translatas.

3. f.53v-59v: Periermeniae / Apulei.

4. f.60r: Versus de singulis mensibus / [Decimus Magnus Ausonius].

5. f.60v, 63r: [Sample letter of monk to abbot].

6. f.63r-64r: [Miscellaenous verses, definitions, and biblical commentary].

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1v).

Collation: Parchment, i (19th-century paper) + i (19th-century parchment) + 64 + i (19th-century parchment) + i (19th-century paper); 1⁴ 2⁴(+4) 3-8⁸ 9⁴; 1-64, 19th-century foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 20 (f. 5-36), 23 (f. 1-4, 45-64), and 27 (f. 37-44) long lines, with the first line above the top line; ruled in drypoint, with a narrow vertical column at each side of the text block into which initials extend in part or in whole; prickings visible on most leaves.

Script: Written in a 9th-century Caroline minuscule, with replacement leaves in 11th-century Caroline minuscule at beginning (f. 1-4) and end (f. 45-64), with headings in rustic Latin capitals.

Decoration: 5 9th-century diagrams, 3 in the ink of the text (f. 37v, 54v) and 2 with colored inks added in the 11th century (f. 36r, 36v); 11th-century full-page decorated initial with Celtic knotwork and lions' heads (f. 1v); 2 11th-century 3-line initials in red and blue (f. 2r, 60v); 11th-century red and blue ink added to 9th-century 3-line initial (f. 5r); 1- and 2-line initials, mostly in the ink of the text (but alternating with red, f. 30-34); 2 3-line and many 2-line 11th-century calligraphic initials in ink of the text with simple ornamentation (f. 44-64).

Binding: 19th-century English diced russia leather (lower flyleaf has J. Whatman 1832 watermark), bound for Sir Thomas Phillips.

Origin: Written in north central France, possibly at the abbey in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, also known as the Abbaye de Fleury.

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Listed in Aristotelis Latinus: codices: supplementa altera (Bruges: Desclée, De Brouwer, 1961) as Phillipps 2179 in the holdings of booksellers L.K. and P.R. Robinson, p. 73-74 (Codex 266).

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 12-13 (LJS 101).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 101.

Contains:

Apuleius. Peri hermēneias.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus.

OCLC:

1041906445

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model