Libellus cuiusda[m] ignoti auctoris de anima cont[ra] que[n] Claudianus trib[us] seq[uen]tib[us] libris disputat Claudiam De statu anime

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Title:
Libellus cuiusda[m] ignoti auctoris de anima cont[ra] que[n] Claudianus trib[us] seq[uen]tib[us] libris disputat Claudiam De statu anime
Title (alt.):
De anima
De statu animae
Title (uniform):
De statu animae
Description:
Prefixed to Mamertus' treatise in this manuscript is a tract by St. Faustus of Riez, "De anima," against which Mamertus argues in his work.
Creator:
Claudianus Mamertus, -approximately 474
Contributor:
Faustus, of Riez, active 5th century
Binder:
Larriviere
Autographer:
Schottus, Andreas, 1552-1629
Former owner:
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Former owner:
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Former owner:
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Former owner:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Former owner:
Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Tournai (Tournai, Belgium)
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[1100–1150]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Signed bindings
Autographs
Inscriptions
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Belgium
Manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium
Protogothic
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Belgium > Wallonia (region) > Hainaut, Province de (province) > Tournai
Extent:
39 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 308 x 215 (233 x 150) mm bound to 32 cm, in box 34 cm.
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Place of origin:
[Tournai]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank.
2. fol. 1v-3: Faustus, De anima (Epistula III: PL LVIII:838-845).
3. fol. 3-39v: Mamertus, De statu animae (PL LIII:697-777).
4. fol. 3-3v: prologue.
5. fol. 3v-4v: chapter headings.
6. fol. 4v-39v: De statu animae.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Collective title from opening rubrics (1v and 4v).
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin in Tournai in the early twelfth century. This appears to be nr. 124 in the twelfth-century St. Martin catalogue; see Delisle I:491, where it is described as "Claudianus de anima in uno volume." 13th-century St. Martin ex libris on fol. 39v: "Liber sancti martini tornacensis servanti benedictio amen." In 1609, the manuscript was studied in Tournai and collated by Jesuit scholar Andreas Schottus; in his autograph inscription on fol. 39v, he notes that he has compared this manuscript to two previous editions (Basel 1520 and Paris 1575) and found it to be superior to both: "Optimus hic codex est, collatus ad editiones Basiliensem et Parisiensem duplicem, in Bibliotheca SS Patrum, in qua multa et omissa, et corrupta sunt. Hic igitur codex iure optimo cum benedictione servandus; quem contulit accurate editis. And[reas] Schottus Soc. Jesu. An. M.DC.IX Tornaci Nerviorum." Schottus used this manuscript in preparing his own edition of 1618 (Magna Bibliotheca Vetorum Patrum, V:944, repr. Lyon, 1677, VI:1050). Schottus’ collation of this very manuscript is mentioned in several later editions: J. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca latina mediæ et infimæ (1734) I:1075 and Augustus Engelbrecht, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna, 1885) XI:vi.
Faustus, of Riez, active 5th century. De anima.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance 1: The manuscript was still in the Tournai library when the catalogue of 1614 was published, in which it is clearly described as "Claudiani Mamerci Viennensium Galliae Episcopi de statu Animae Libri 3 longe meliores quam typis per excusi Parisiis, in Biblotheca SS. Patrum Margarini, in qua editione multa & omissa & corrupta sunt quare merito hic codex caute sevandus. Hunc contulit accurrate cum impressis Andr. Schottus Societ. Iesu an. 1609 Tornaci Nerviorum. Praemittitur Libris Claudiani Libellus euiusdam ignoti Authoris de Anima contra quem Claudianus tribus sequentifub Libris disputat." (Sanderius p. 115, nr. 27).
Provenance 2: Engelbrecht suggests that this may be the Tournai copy of Mamertus purchased from the abbey by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1824. Later owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), who apparently had it rebound by Larriviere, who also bound at least two other Barrois manuscripts; Barrois' 1849 sale (n. 97) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878). Consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for further information.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased on behalf of the Boston Public Library by Sydney Cockerell from the Ashburnham sale of June 10, 1901 (lot 196) (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. I, page 920
Delisle, L. Cabinet des manuscrits de la bibliothèque imperiale, vol. II, page 491
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: tione substantiae tenetur.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 39 + ii (modern parchment) ; 1⁶ 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5⁶⁺¹ (final leaf is a tipped-in singleton) ; modern arabic pencil foliation on each page (1, 1v. etc.).
Layout: One column, 36 lines; ruled in blind; pricking in outer margins.
Script: Written in a romanesque script in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two-line red epigraphic capitals throughout; seven-line initial in red, fol. 3r; eight-line initial in red with white spaces, fol. 1v; 8-line red initial with incorporated bird, fol. 32r; 9-line red and green initial with red and green flora into margin with two birds incorporated, fol. 4v; faint 12th-century sketch of human head, lower margin of fol. 20r; geometric diagrams, fol. 18v.
Binding: Ca. late 19th-century brown calf over boards by Larriviere (signed on spine). Brown marbled pastedowns and conjoint flyleaf, followed by vellum flyleaf, at front and back. Probably bound for Barrois, who owned at least two other manuscripts in Larriviere bindings (New York City, Columbia Univ. Plimpton MS 43, and Baltimore, Walters Art Museum W. 445).
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: A. Engelbrecht, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna, 1885), XI:vi; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928), 62; A. Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta, 1641 (repr. 1972), 115, nr. 27; J.A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae (1734), I:1075.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_016844
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med. 15
MS G.31.66 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999089662991