Jacobus de Voragine (c.1225-1298)
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Los 18 | Jacobus de Voragine (c.1225-1298)
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Golden Legend, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany, 15th century]
Written in the Benedictine abbey of St Jakob in Mainz and still in its original binding, this copy of the Golden Legend – here accompanied by another Dominican text – passed through the celebrated collections of Leander van Ess and Sir Thomas Phillipps.
290 x 220mm. i + 492 leaves, complete, collation: 1-4112, catchwords partially survive, erroneous old ink foliation repeating f.34 followed here, 32-40 lines, ruled space: 203 x 119mm, marginal text corrections and shoulder notes added in contemporary hands, rubrics in red, paragraph marks in blue in the Compendium moralitatum, text capitals touched in red, two- to ten-line chapter initials in blue or red with alternate penwork flourishing extending into the margins (final two gatherings restitched at a later date, ff.1 and 3 and 474-5 rehinged with some darkening at gutter, small splits to lower edges and small marginal holes of ff.1-4, occasional repaired tears to margins and scattered staining and small losses). Contemporary German binding of pigskin over wooden boards, metal bosses and clasps (upper joint and hinge renewed, losses at base of spine and corners, leather of clasps replaced, wormtracks more prevalent to lower cover). Modern cloth-covered box and sleeve.
Provenance:
(1) Presumably copied at and for the Benedictine Abbey of St Jakob, Mainz: the manuscript appears as item 157 in the inventory of the abbey’s library compiled in 1512 by the monk Wolfgang Trefler and an inscription inside the upper cover reads ‘Codex mo[na]st[e]ri S[anc]ti Jacobi in monte specioso ex[tra] mu[ros Moguntie]’.
(2) Probably Johann Konrad Dahl (1762-1833) of Darmstadt (according to De Ricci Census, p.15, no 23).
(3) Leander van Ess (1772-1847) of Darmstadt and Marburg (on whom, and on whose library, see Milton McC. Gatch, ‘So Precious a Foundation’: The Library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, 1996): his no 195. Collector, monk, priest and Professor of Theology at the University of Marburg, van Ess was a prolific acquirer of monastic books: in 1821 he bought 136 of the manuscripts from the Charterhouse of St Barbara in Cologne at auction, through Heberle and Lempert; he also bought printed books from the Dominicans of Warburg and from Huysberg and Hadmersleben Abbeys, among others. Described as ‘De historia lombardica’ in his catalogue of 1823. Acquired in 1824 by:
(4) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), antiquary and book collector, his MS 579. Published in Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., 1837, p.7, no 579. His sale, Sotheby’s, Bibliotheca Phillippica, Catalogue of a further portion of the classical, historical, topographical, genealogical and other manuscripts and autograph letters of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. F. R. S. etc. of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, and Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, 6 June 1910, lot 53 to:
(5) Maurice-Léon Ettinghausen (1883-1974), antiquarian bookseller in Paris and New York and, after WWII, in Britain.
(6) Ludwig Rosenthal Antiquariat, Munich; Manuskripte, Inkunabeln, Holzschnitt- und Kupferwerke und andere Kostbarkeiten, catalogue 135, vol. II, 1914, no 2484.
(7) Mrs Milton E Getz, Beverley Hills, published in De Ricci, Census, I, p.15, no 23. Her sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, 18 November 1936, lot 1588.
(8) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(9) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label inside upper cover, MS 47. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 38. Published in De Ricci, Supplement, p.399, no 47.
Content:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea ff.1-410v; Jacobus de Lausanne (d1321/22), Compendium moralitatum ff. 411-490 (incipit: Abicit mundus pauperes; Stegmüller, Bibl. 3887); ruled blank [f.491, i.e. 492].
The Dominican Jacobus de Voragine wrote the Golden Legend, probably in the 1260s, as a compilation to accompany the major feasts of the church calendar by detailing the lives and miracles of saints and explicating events in the lives of Christ and the Virgin. With about a thousand surviving manuscripts, in Latin and translation, it must have been the most widely consulted authority on such matters so that it gives an invaluable insight into what was generally known by writers, artists and their patrons.
Jacques de Lausanne was superior of the Dominican Province of France in 1318 until his death; his writings include commentaries on the Old and New Testaments and some 1,500 sermons. His Compendium moralitatum comprises a collection of moral teachings excerpted from his sermons.
Literature
Leander van Ess, Sammlung und Verzeichniss handschriftlicher Bücher aus dem VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. etc. Jahrhundert. [...] welche besitzt Leander van Ess [...] (privately printed, 1823), no 195.
Thomas Phillipps, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., A.D. 1837 [Reprinted with an Introduction by A.N.L. Munby], repr. [London] Orskey-Johnson, 2001 (Privately printed, 1837), no 579.
Fritz Schillmann, Wolfgang Trefler und die Bibliothek des Jakobsklosters in Mainz, 1913, pp.131-2.
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