Lot 51

Peter Lombard, Collectanea in Epistolas Pauli, the 'Great Gloss' on the Epistles of Paul, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [probably Rhineland (possibly Meuse valley), third quarter of the twelfth century]

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

Vellum

a bifolium, 435mm. by 302mm., two columns, 51 lines, a clubbed romanesque textura (littera praegothica textualis libraria), commentaries on (a) I Thessalonians 4:1-15 (Migne, Pat.Lat. 192, cols.299-303) and (b) II Thessalonians 2:15-3:18 and I Timothy 1:1 (ibid, 321-27), biblical lemmata in red, the author's sources (mainly Augustine and Haimo of Auxerre) in red in the margins, large decorated initial, 8-line, in pale blue with decorative scrolling, worn, edges partly defective, recovered from the outside of a binding, creased in folds, hessian binding

Provenance

provenance

Bought in 1990 from Jeremy Griffiths (1955-1997); Schøyen MS 220.

Catalogue Note

text

The Great Gloss, or Magna Glossatura, of Peter Lombard (c.1100-1160, bishop of Paris), underwent a series of changes in page layout since its release for publication probably in 1163 (cf. I. Brady, Magistri Petri Lombardi Sententiae, I, 1971, pp.83-4). This is the earliest of all, with the biblical text in red ink, comparable to the oldest datable copy, Admont Stiftsbibliothek MS 52, owned by Eberhardt, archbishop of Salzburg 1147-64. In use of concurrent parallel texts, biblical and exegetical, citation of patristic sources (here in red in the margins, the ultimate precursor of the modern footnote), and general readability, it was one of the most revolutionary biblical commentaries of the twelfth-century renaissance.