Theological works written in Germany.
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Abbreviations of the Sentences of Peter Lombard in four books – Friedrich Stegmülller, ‘Repertorium commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi’ (Würzburg, 1947), number 9. Ends 'Et videbunt cadavera virorum etc piitet unusquisque deo gratias etc est finis'. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Albertus Magnus, 'Quaestiones super missus est', or 'De laudibus beatae Mariae Virginis' – Stegmüller, ‘Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’, (Madrid, 1940-) number 1061. Ends 'et miraculum de miraculo et sic est finis primi libri'. (Folio 73.)
The manuscript is written in several hands in littera notularis and littera cursiva. Initials are in red, a few with touches of silver. In a few cases (folios 105 verso, 108 verso, 145 verso) lack of space has obliged the rubricator to put the initial sideways. There are occasional marginalia in near-contemporary hands. The paste-downs consist of two leaves from a fourteenth-century work in double columns, possibly on metaphysics.
Dates
- Creation: 15th century.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
154 Leaves ; 300 x 210 millimetres.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
i + 153 folios.
Collation: 1-10¹², 11¹⁰, (+ a bifolium after 4), 12 ¹², 13 ¹² (- 10, 11, 12 probably blank).
Some catchwords.
Foliated throughout in a near-contemporary hand, but folios 73-96 (the first part of section ii) are foliated 1-24, probably by the scribe of the text. Signatures a-f (a-g in the second gathering) in dry point on the rectos of all the gatherings, sometimes with the additional signatures primus-octavus. 2 columns. 49-50 lines.
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Reid Fund.
There are two fifteenth-century inscriptions 'Ad carthusienses prope Erfford' (folio i and back cover) and one eighteenth-century one 'Cartusiae Erfordiensis' (folio 1). Two labels on the front cover read 'Albertus magnus de laude b. marie VII K', and 'H 78'. See Paul Lehmann, ‘Mittelatterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz’ (Munich, 1918-1962), volume ii, page 398, number 58, which gives the contents in the reverse order. For another book from this library see MS.2739.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 2 February 1960, lot 284.
Physical Description
Paper (watermarks of bull's head, bell, and horn).
Contemporary binding of white leather on wooden boards, studs and clasps missing.
Thumb guides.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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