De comprobatione aetatis sextae, etc., 1400 - 1499
Abstract
Contents: Table of contents followed by a brief publishing history of the texts which describes article 6 as "ineditus" and probably "spurius." Later additions, in lead, in a twentieth-century hand; De Comprobatione Aetatis Sextae; a chronology of the Roman Empire from the birth of Christ through Michael; Table of contents; De fide catholica; Unidentified text attributed to Jerome; In libros Veteris et Novi Testamenti Proemia; Allegorie Quaedam Sacrae Scripturae.
Dates
- Creation: 1400 - 1499
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
Written in the fifteenth century. Provenance unknown. Unidentified [Sotheby's ?] catalogue entry glued to flyleaf. In the collection of Howard L. Goodhart (2 bookplates; in lead: "Census 1675 pencil no. 112"),
Authors
- Saint Julian of Toledo (Julianus Toletanus)
Other related names
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, donor
- Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart, owner
- Gordan, John Dozier Jr., owner
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Left by Howard Lehman Goodhart to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.
Physical Description
Outer margin repair in final three leaves is made from now badly deteriorating paper.
Paper support (watermarks: Similar to Briquet Indéterminés 16073), ff. iv (modern paper, a contemporary flyleaf has been glued to f. ii)+ i (parchment) + 117 + i (contemporary paper) + iv (modern paper).
United States; 20th-century brown cloth with Howard L. Goodhart's gold crane stamped on cover. On spine gold-tooled on green leather label: JULIAN/ ISODORUS/ & OTHERS/ MSS. XV CENT.
195 x 136 (138 x 80) mm.
c. 35-40 unruled lines, with single horizontal and vertical bounding lines in ink. Prickings visible in outer margin.
Gothic cursive script, written by a single scribe.
Numerous crude, 2- to 3-line red initials throughout. Red underlining and paragraph markers; sentence strokes in yellow. Occasional marginal drawings in brown ink with yellow.
Foliation possibly in the hand which wrote the first table of contents.
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