Item Summary

New Testament Gospel of St. Luke. Incomplete at beginning, begins with Luke 7:2. Marginal gloss.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Gospel of St. Luke with glossa ordinaria]
Call Number
Kane MS. 2
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2v23w565k
Publisher
[France], [between 1150 and 1199]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1150-1200
Extent
66 leaves : parchment ; 268 x 180 (160-170 x 65) mm bound to 275 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Held at the Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame in Aubazine until probably the time of the French Revolution. Later owned by Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. Sold from his collection in 1844 to Thomas Thorpe. Purchased by Bernard Quaritch in 1860. George Dunn acquired it in 1894. Sold from his collection in 1913 through Sotheby's, London to Bertram Dobell, perhaps for Giuseppe Martini. In 1914, Grenville Kane purchased it from Martini. Princeton University Library acquired the manuscript from Kane's heirs in February 1946.
Source Acquisition
Acquired Estate of Grenville Kane; 1946.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 4-5.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "seruus male habens erat moriturus qui ille erat pretiosus ..."
Explicit: "" ... audantes et benedicentes deum."
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper flyleaf) + 66 + ii (paper flyleaves) ; partial modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; glosses in ca. 40 lines arranged in columns on each side of the text.
Decoration: Red or red-and-blue lines drawn around some units of text, marginal glosses, and flaws in parchment and embellished with elaborate, fanciful red and brown ink pen decoration. One- and two-line initials in black or red, some with embellishments.
Origin: Probably written at the Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame in Aubazine, France, in the second half of the 12th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. England, 19th century. Brown half-calf and marbled paper binding over pasteboard.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible Luke—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—France
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
decorated initials
illuminated manuscripts
Parchment (Paper)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
145

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8d661d03-a19e-4e7b-8f34-1af38c1a543b/manifest