Epistolae; Vita s. martini, etc., 1450 - 1500
Abstract
This is an Italian manuscript from the second half of the fifteenth century, which contains: Pseudo-Eusebius' Epistola de morte Hieronomi ad Damasium; Pseudo-Augustine's Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi ad Cyrillum; Pseudo-Cyrillus' Epistola ad beatum Augustinum de miraculis Hieronymi; Sulpicius Severus' De vita beati Martini, his Tituli metrici de Santo Martino, and his Dialogus I-III; Gregory of Tours' Narrationes in obitu et de prima translatione; and Vita Sancti Zenonis.
Dates
- Creation: 1450 - 1500
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
Written in Northern Italy, probably in Verona, in the second half of the fifteenth century. On f. 162r, the scribe copies a marginal notation written by Maggio Maggi, a Veronese jurist, in the margin of his manuscript of Severus. The note comments on an incident in the life of S. Martin, when the saint, upon meeting an ill-clad beggar, takes his sword, cuts his cloak in half and gives one-half to the poor man: "hoc ferrum quod gladium uel ensem uulgo appellamus, uidi et tetigi ego madius de madiis in ciuitate Verona in domo spectabilium de Biuilaquis die sabbati quarto Augusti de 1425." Another hand appends to this notation: "hodie uero seruatur in Monasterio Fratrum Minorum in templo quod Carrote uulgo nominatur in agro Veronensi." (See Bernard M. Peebles's discussion of Maggio's note, and his comments on the early provenance of MS 10 in "Girolamo da Prato and his Manuscripts of Sulpicius Severus," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 13 [1936] 7-66). In the Saibante collection at Verona (Scipione Maffei, Indice delli libri, che si ritrovano nella raccolta del nobile Signor Giulio Saibanti patrizio veronese [Verona, 1734] 213). Abate Matteo Canonici sale (London, 26 Feb. 1821, n. 182), to Thorpe; in 1823 it belonged to Rev. Henry Drury (his note on f. ir: "MS. pulcher in Memor: H. Drury," a table of contents and the remark: "I consider this as a very curious volume. 1023"); his sale (London, 1897, n. 322) to Ellis (Cat. 88, 1898, n. 175); G. I. Ellis sale (London, 28 Oct. 1902, n. 978) to Ellis; sale by Sotheby (London, 14 Dec. 1906, n. 186) to Eversley. Purchased by Howard L. Goodhart from the estate of W. M. Voynich
Author
- Pseudo-Eusebius, Cremonensis
- Pseudo-Augustine'
- Sulpice, the Pious, Saint, 570-647
Other related names
- Saibante Collection, Verona, former owner
- Canonici, Matteo, former owner
- Thorpe, former owner
- Rev. Drury, Henry former owner
- Ellis, G. I., former owner
- Sotheby's, auctioneer
- Eversley, former owner
- Voynich, W. M., former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, donor
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given by Howard L. Goodhart to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate and stamp) in 1943.
Physical Description
Previously Goodhart 11
Parchment support.
Original wooden boards, covered with early nineteenth-century English red velvet, blind-stamped front and back. On spine tooled in gold on black leather panels: "EUSEBII ET/ ALIORUM EPISTOLAE" and "VITA SANCTI MARTINI." In ink on the lower fore-edge: "Epis: B. Eiusebii."
i+324; 180 x 118mm bound to 190 x 128mm
Single column, twenty-one lines, ruled in pale brown ink with double vertical bounding lines, full length in ink; occasional prickings visible in lower margin
Written in a neat free-humanistic script by several scribes
One ten-line pink initial, one six-line pink initial, and one four-line pink initial all on gold backgrounds; on fol. 1r, along the inside, bottom, and one-quarter of the top margin of f. 1r, acanthus leaves, finely drawn and shaded blue, green, pink, and red, fill a three-quarter bar border outlined in black. The border extends into the text to include a 10-line pink initial decorated with fine black penwork, and infilled with delicate gold and black scrollwork on an olive green ground. An unidentified coat of arms is centered in the lower margin inside a twelve-sided, pink-framed roundel infilled with gold; although the arms have been mostly effaced, a helmet is still partially visible. On f. 297r the text begins with a 6-line dusky pink initial on a gold ground infilled with a red and green acanthus leaf on a blue ground with white penwork filigree on the initial, the acanthus leaf, and the blue ground. Three black penwork seedpods infilled with gold are placed above the initial in the top margin while extending from the side is a green disc from which a spray of gold and blue balls dangle on penwork stems. Numerous 3-line blue or red initials throughout with fine blue, red, or brown penwork extensions often reaching the length of the column of text. Red or blue paragraph markers. Headings in red throughout. Guide letters for decorator are often visible near, or inside the initials.
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto
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