Homiliary and saints' lives : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Homiliary and saints' lives : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Homiliary
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Allard, Joseph-Félix
Former owner:
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Former owner:
Saint Allyre (Abbey)
Former owner:
William H. Robinson, Ltd.
Date:
[0900?–0933?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Homiliaries
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
France > Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region) > Clermont
Extent:
[93] leaves : parchment ; 350 x 260 (275 x 195 to 265 x 182) mm.
Permalink:
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Restrictions:
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Place of origin:
[Clermont (France)]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. f. 1: blank (Phillipps ownership inscription added after 1831)
2. ff. 1v-72v: Homiliary, from the first Sunday of Quadragesima through Tuesday of the sixth week of Lent (ends imperfectly; see Gorman for details).
3. ff. 73-89v: The Life of St. Mary of Egypt (BHL 5417)
4. ff. 84v-86v: The Life of St. Mark (BHL 5276 and 5277)
5. ff. 86v-90v: The Life of Sts. John and Paul (BHL 3236 and 3238)
6. ff. 90v-91v: The Life of St. Peter (Liber Pontificalis (ed. L. Duchesne) I:118)
7. ff. 91v-93v: Revelatio Luciani (The Revelation of Lucian of the Life of St. Stephen) (PL 41:807-815 and BHL 7851)
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in the first third of the 10th century (per Bernard Bischoff, letter to Michael Gorman, see Gorman p. 157) at the Benedictine abbey of St. Allyre in Clermont (see pencil notation on front flyleaf), perhaps identical with the "Sermones in Quadragesima" noted by B. Montfaucon in his ca. 1735 inventory of the Clermont library (Étaix, p. 241, note 11).
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Possibly at the abbey of St. Allyre until the library's dispersal ca. 1793. Later owned by Joseph-Félix Allard (1795-1831), though not clearly identifiable in the Techener sales of his library (18 and 26 October 1831). Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (nr. 13842), with his lion rampant stamp on former front pastedown and ownership inscription on f. 1 (SDBM 203301). Phillipps sale at Sotheby's, 6 June 1898, lot 796 (SDBM 59858).
Notes (acquisition):
Purchased by the BPL in 1947 from the firm of W.H. Robinson (SDBM 57044).
Notes (citation):
For published descriptions, see: Coudere, C. Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France: Départements XIV (Paris, 1890), xxv; Étaix, R. "Le Lectionnaire Liturgique de la Cathédrale de Clermont au Xe Siècle" in Bulletin historique et scientique de l'Auvergne 88 (1977), 241; Gorman, M. "The Oldest Latin Manuscript in Boston: a Unique Carolingian Homiliary for Lent from Clermont" in Manuscripta XXVI (1982), 157-166; Munby, A.N.L. The Formation of the Phillipps Library up to the Year 1840 (Phillipps Studies 3) (Cambridge, 1954), 33; Munby, A.N.L. The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841 to 1872 (Phillipps Studies 4) (Cambridge, 1956), 186; Munsterberg, M. "A Thousand Year Old Gospel-Book" in More Books XXIII (1948), 123-131 and 251; Omont, H. "Manuscrits relatifs à l'histoire de France conservés dans la bibliothèque de Sir Thomas Phillipps à Cheltenham," in Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes 50 (1889); The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Thomae Phillipps, Bt. (repr. London, 1968), 253. This manuscript is not listed by S. Vanderlinden in his 1946 edition of the Revelatio Luciani (see "Revelatio Sancti Stephani (BHL 7850-6)" in Revue des études byzantines, 4 (1946), 178-217).
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, page 210
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ... tione mundi. Hoc ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (ca. 19th-century parchment) + 93 + fol. i (ca. 19th-century parchment) ; 1-2⁸ 3⁴ 5-7⁸ 8⁶ 9⁴ 10⁶ 11⁴ 12-13⁸ 14⁵ (lacking unknown number of quires after f. 72, quire 10) ; modern pencil signatures in lower right corner, first recto of each quire, signed A-N. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner of each recto.
Layout: Two columns, 22 lines (ff. 1-72) or 30 lines (ff. 73-92). Bounding and ruling lines in blind.
Script: Written in three Caroline bookhands in brown ink with orange rubrics (ff. 1-72, ff. 73-91, and ff. 91-93). Ff. 1-72, initials stroked or filled with orange.
Binding: Bound in modern brown calfskin. Formerly bound in ca. early 19th-century marbled boards with spine title stamped in gilt ("Homiliae anonyme") and French paper spine liner from a printed Catechism. Housed in a tan cloth box together with earlier vellum pastedowns/free endpapers.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
MS-f-Med-95_001 - MS-f-Med-95_202
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med. 95
MS 1522 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999085497574