Vita s. martini, etc., 1400 - 1499
Abstract
This is a fifteenth-century manuscript from Northern Italy, possibly Verona, which contains Sulpicius Severus' Life of Saint Martin and his Dialogues; Gregory of Tours' Life of Saint Martin of Tours; Tituli Metrici de Sancto Martino; and the Life of Saint Zeno.
Dates
- Creation: 1400 - 1499
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
Written in the fifteenth century; the inclusion of the Life of Zeno suggests that it may have been written in Verona, that saint's diocese. Early provenance unknown. Library shelf mark: "533" in ink and on a paper label on inside front cover; on verso of folio i: "MS 32". Two unidentified catalogue entries glued to inside cover, # 5335 and #139; in lead on inside back cover: "#12884". In the collection of the orientalist Sir John Hadden Hindley (1765-1827; bookplate). Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 6732 on f. 1r, listed in the Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum) acquired it in 1834 from Howell and Stewart. In the collection of Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate).
Authors
- Severus, Sulpicius
Other related names
- Hindley, John Hadden, former owner
- Howell and Stewart, bookseller
- Phillipps, Thomas, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, donor
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented by Howard Lehman Goodhart to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1943.
Physical Description
Parchment support.
Original wooden boards with eighteenth-century blind-tooled leather backing, leather and metal clasp. On spine, gold-tooled: SEU. SVLPITII/ VITA S. MARTINI MSS. On back cover in ink: "Vita B. Martini".
i+90+i; 201 x 140 mm bound to 214 x 150 mm.
Single column, twenty-eight to twenty-nine lines, ruled with single vertical bounding lines, full length, occasionally with single horizontal bounding lines above the ruled lines; prickings in upper and lower margins.
Humanistic bookhand script, written by several scribes.
Spaces for all initials left unfilled, with the exception of four 2-line red initials on ff. 3r, 4v, 7v, 8v; guide letters for decorator visible in spaces. Headings and tables of contents in red, almost totally faded.
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