Item Summary

Influential compendium of Christian theology from the Middle Ages.

Descriptive Information

Title
Liber sententiarum.
Call Number
Garrett MS. 79
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczw12zk21g
Publisher
[France], [between 1275 and 1300]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1275-1300
Extent
341 leaves : parchment ; 290 x 201 (52-170 x 100) mm bound to 294 x 208 mm.
Provenance
Early provenance unknown, although may have belonged to Beauvais Cathedral. Intermediate provenance unknown. Robert Garrett purchased the manuscript on 10 June 1926 from the Wilfrid M. Voynich. His 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 161-162.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "Hic incipit prologus in librum sententiarum. Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate ..."
Explicit: "... per media ad pedes usque uia duce peruenit."
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 1r).
Marginal and interlinear notes, corrections and comments in several hands. Contains a brief text or extract on matrimony, related to St. Augustine "De bono coniugali" (fol. 340r).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (modern paper) + 341 + ii (modern paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 32 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Decoration: French Gothic. 4- to 6-line historiated initials in Parisian style at the opening of the Prologue and of books 1-4. The miniatures are painted within blue or pink finely decorated initials on burnished gold leaf background. 3-6 line initials mark lesser divisions. Smaller initials in red and blue.
Binding Note
Later binding. England (?), 19th century. Stiffened parchment with yapps, sewn on four bands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
historiated initials
decorated initials

Physical Characteristics

File Count
694

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ddafb44f-842f-4ee6-a242-3fdde8211614/manifest