Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Pope Gregory I, Smaragdus of St. Mihiel, Bartholomew of Exeter.
Call Number
Princeton MS. 119
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcz029ph74v
Publisher
[England] : [producer not identified], [between 1200-1225]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1200-1225
Extent
1 volume (iii, 130, i leaves) : parchment ; 25 cm
Provenance
Princeton MS. 119 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance. There are 13th- and 14th-century annotations in various hands. The Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript from the British antiquarian bookseller Alan G. Thomas, proprietor of Commins Bookshop, Bournemouth, probably in the late 1970s.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 348-349.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1.1r-53v: “ ||etiam ammonitionis modo per singula quanta possumus breuitate pandamus? Quod aliter [admonendi sint inopes atque diuites] xxuii. Aliter igitur ammonendi sunt uiri atque aliter femine. Quia illis grauiora ...” Explicit: “... ut quia pondus proprium deprimit, tui me meriti manus leuet.”
2.54r: “Hunc modicum operis nostri libellum de multorum dictis ortodoxorum opitulante christo collegimus patrum et per eorum discurrentes florentia prata bene olentes ueluti ad manum collegimus flosculos ... offitio capitulum ponimus primum. Expliciunt capitula.”
3.54r-55v: “Incipiunt capitule libri sequentis. Cap. i. De oratione ... c. De duobus altaribus in homine uno in corpore et altario in corde.”
4.55v-121v: “Incipit primum capitulum. De oratione. Hoc remedium eius qui uitiorum temptamentis exestuat. Ut quotiens aliquo tangitur uitio ...” Explicit: “... sic inuisibiliter de corporis castitate uel animi puritate spirituale gaudium habere mereamur. Amen.”
5.122r-123r: “Incipit liber penitentialis. De bonis et malis innotescendis ... De redemptione ieiunii. cxxxv.”
6.123v-130v: “Numquam nimis docetur aut scitur quod cum salutis dispendio caretur et ignoratur. Studeant itaque sacerdotes omnibus innotescere et mala cum quibus et bona sine quibus nemo saluari ...” Explicit: “... exutus indumento nudum se in spinarum aculeis et urticarum incendiis proiecit, et per ||”
Notes
Script: Protogothic, by two scribes, changing at fol. 78r.
Decoration: Includes three 3-line red and pale blue initials, with red penwork infilling and extensions into the margins, fols. 54r, 55v, and 123v; and approximately 160 2- to 3-line initials alternating in red and pale blue, generally with penwork of the other color; the light blue pigment has generally flaked or faded away, particularly from fol. 122r to the end.
Binding Note
England, 20th century. Signed binding by Bayntun of Bath, a firm founded by George Bayntun (1873-1940). Gilt on front turn-in: “BAYNTUN. BINDER. BATH. ENG.” Brown calf gilt over paste-board, with rose and teal marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves; sewn on five raised bands; endbands with secondary sewing in brown and orange. Spine title: “liber regulae pastoralis. ms. 15th cent.”

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Subject
Pastoral theology—Catholic Church—Early works to 1800
Monastic and religious life—Early works to 1800
Repentance—Christianity—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—England
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Illumination of books and manuscripts

Physical Characteristics

File Count
274

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e8a70f95-f93c-4296-bcb8-8d5aec689332/manifest