Descriptive Information

Title

[De] virtute ... [etc.]

Call Number

Garrett MS. 94

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcz890s713s

Publisher

[England] ; [France], [14th century]

Language

Latin

Date Created

1300-1400

Format

Manuscript

Extent

243 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 290 x 205 (220 x 130-150) mm bound to 294 x 207 mm.

Provenance

Given by Robert de Coton, archdeacon of Durham Cathedral to Fountains Abbey in the 13th century. Intermediate provenance unknown. Later owned by the Ingilby family. Sir William Henry Ingilby sold it at Sotheby's London in 1922 to Bernard Quaritch who sold it to Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897 on 10 August 1928. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 198-203.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Contents

1. fol. 3r-6v: [De] virtute. Treatise on virtue citing St. Anselm of Cantterbury and Hugh of St. Victor.

2. fol. 7r-46v: Exposiciones prouerbiorum. Commentary on Proverbs 1-25.

3. fol. 47r-59r: [L]iber sapientie Salomonis. Commentary on chapters 1-19.

4. fol. 59v-60v: [Coena Cypriani] / [Rabanus Maurus].

5. fol. 61r-89r: [Parabolae Salomonis] / Willielmum Alvernensem.

6. fol. 90r-120r: [Homiliae in Ecclesiasten] / [Hugh of St. Victor].

7. fol. 121r-168v: [Moralia super Genesim] / [Nicholas of Tournai].

8. fol. 169r-171r: [Homilies 3-4] / [St. Bernard of Clairvaux].

9. fol. 171r-173r: De amando dei / [Baldwin of Forde].

10. fol. 173v-185r: [In visionem Ezechielis] / [Richard of St. Victor]. Contains colored diagrams of the Temple.

11. fol. 185r-209v: [Florilegium of Gospel commentaries and notes].

12. fol. 209v-243v: [Florilegium of commentaries and notes on the Pauling Epistles].

Notes

Incipit: [De virtute] "[De] virtute in generali et de iustitia in generali dicendum est de virtute spirituali et primo de fide que est prima virtutum certa ..." -- [Exposiciones] "[T]ripplicem statum nostri profectus idem psalmi nobis insinuat. Fac bonum inquire pacem et prosequere eam ... [Ps. 33:15]" -- [Liber sapientie] ""[L]iber sapientie Salomonis dicitur esse quia sententie Salomonis sunt ..." -- [Coena Cypriani] "[D]omino excellentissimo atque serenissimo regi lothario ultimus nostre sublimitatis ..." -- [Parabolae] "Quod dicitur in parobolis a principio usque ad illum locum audiens sapiens et cetera ..." -- [Homiliae] "[Q]ue de libro Salomonis qui ecclesiastes dicitur nuper uobis coram disserui ..." -- [Moralia] "[O]see In funiculis Adam traham uos [Hosea 11:3]. Sic trahit cum timorem incutit uel dolorem in uinculis caritatis ..." -- [Homilies] "... circumventionem nullas hic suspiceris insidias non sum homo sed spiritus et dei angelus non sathane ..." -- [De amando dei] "De amando dei. Quidam legis peritus dixit ad ihesum. Magister quid faciendo uitam eternam possidebo ..." -- [In visionem] "Multis divine scripture multo amplius dulcescunt quando congruum in eis aliquem secundum litteram ..." -- [Florilegium 1] "Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt, Lucas evangelista testatur dicens ..." -- [Florilegium 2] "Quemadmodum alie scripture quibusdam gradibus doctrine docuntur ..."

Explicit: [De virtute] "... remanet ignorancia et ita de peccato sit non peccatum." -- [Exposiciones] "... vel hominis exterioris et interioris. Hec quoque parobole." -- [Liber sapientie] "Expliciunt notule super librum sapientie exponentes litteram tantum. Benedictus dominus fiat fiat." -- [Coena Cypriani] "... ad dominum proprium sunt reversi. Explicit pri(!) cena nuptialis collecta ex actis dictisque patrum tam veteris quam novi testamenti." -- [Parabolae] "... per quam dei offensam traxisse legitur de libro xxiiiio." -- [Homiliae] "... hec ipsa aliis post se profutura sint et ignorant." -- [Moralia] "quam ut est in pio" -- [Homilies] "... cui hoc meum qualecumque opusculum deuotissime destinaui." -- [De amando dei] "... a labore quem finxit in precepto sine fine respirat." -- [In visionem] "... et x millia latitudinis erunt leuitis qui ministrant domui." -- [Florilegium 1] "... solum deum uoluit significare tunc quattuor litteris scribit. Ioth et cetera." -- [Florilegium 2] "... et tamen ratione adquiescere conuincitur. Amen, id est, in eternum."

Ms. composite codex.

Title devised from incipit of first work (fol. 3r).

Partial lists of contents (fol. 1r).

Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 243 + i (modern parchment) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.

Layout: 49-58 lines per page in two columns.

Decoration: Eleven diagrams of the Temple in yellow and red. A few colored initials in blue, green, red or blue, some with penwork or infill.

Origin: Two sections: England, middle decades of the 13th century (fol. 1-168r); England or France (fol. 169v-243).

Binding Note

Later binding. England, 14th/20th century. Upper cover of oak (8 mm thick) may be original when volume was brought together. Lower board of oak from after 1920. No spine covering. Evidence of strap (now missing).

Discovery Information

Subject

Catholic Church—Sermons—Early works to 1800

Bible—Commentaries—Early works to 1800

Catholic Church—Doctrines—Early works to 1800

Virtue—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

494

Institutional Information

Collection

Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dadac49e-28bd-4a57-bb3a-888c44a8aa7f/manifest

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