De institutione religiosorum

Item Information

Title:
De institutione religiosorum
Title (alt.):
De eruditione religiosorum
Author:
Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271
Attributed name:
Humbert, de Romans, 1194?-1277
Attributed name:
Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264
Attributed name:
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Former owner:
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
Date:
1380
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Inscriptions
Marginalia
Manicules
Embossed stamps
Bookplates
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Education--Early works to 1800
Places:
Italy
Extent:
144 leaves : parchment ; 193 x 132 (137 x 88) mm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Italy?]
Language:
Latin
Referenced by:
Link to full item description
Notes:
Author's name from Steiner, A. Guillaume Perrault and Vincent of Beauvais. Speculum, vol. 8, no. 1 (Jan., 1933) pp. 51-58. Sometimes attributed Humbert of Romans, Vincent of Beauvais, or Thomas Aquinas.
Title from incipit (fol. [5]): Incipit prologus in librum De institutiones religiosorum qui dicitur erudire Ierusalem.
Date from colophon on fol. Cxxxvii verso; place of production based on analysis of script.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Italy or Southern France in 1380. See colophon on fol. Cxxxvii verso ("Explicit liber erudire Ierusalem totus sit laus Domino Ihesu Christo et Matri eius gloriosissime. Quem scripsit & perfecit D.T.M. monasterii sancti Laurentii [erased] sub anno domino M.CCC.L.xxx.")
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Early/contemporary marginalia throughout. Ca. 19th-century inscription on fol. [1]r attributing the work to Humbert of Romans. BPL embossed stamp on fol. [1]r. Purchased by Theodore Parker in Rome, 1844, according to an inscription on the front flyleaf verso.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the BPL in Oct., 1861 via the Theodore Parker bequest.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Ista su[n]t capitula huius operis infra scripti diuisi i[n] sex partes qua[rum] viz ...
Collation: parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 144 (foliated [5], i-Cxxxvii, [2]) + iii (modern paper) ; I⁴ II-XIV⁸ XV¹⁰ XVI⁸ XVII¹⁰ XVIII⁸ ; horizontal catchwords in brown or red ink frames in lower margin of final versos of each gathering. Contemporary roman foliation in red ink, upper outer corner of each leaf, from II2-XVIII6, thus reaching Cxxxvii, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Two columns, 31 lines below the top line. Bounding and ruling lines in blind and light brown ink. Pricking in outer margins.
Script: Written in a southern textualis libraria with red rubrics.
Decoration: Nine-line initial on fol. [5] in interlocking blue and red. Two- and three-line initials rubricated throughout in alternating blue and red. Capital strokes in yellow. Capitula in blue, red, and black.
Binding: 19th-century brown goatskin with the author (listed as Humbert) and title stamped in gilt on the upper cover ("Humbertus de Institutione Religionis.") and the date stamped in gilt on the lower cover ("Liber. M.S. MCCCLXXX.").
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_020132
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.260
B.144.6 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999086126347