ID 869564
Lot 157 | A Study Group
A study group of leaves and fragments, in Latin, manuscripts on vellum [c. 1100 to the 15th century]
A selection of scholastic and theological manuscripts from Western Europe, representing some of the intellectual pursuits of the High and Late Middle Ages, with a fifteenth-century Calendar, use of Milan.
Comprising:
(i) A leaf from Burchardus Wormatiensis, Liber Decretum [Germany, c. 1100].
c.240 × 143mm. 28 lines, with pricking preserved on fore-edge, in a late Caroline minuscule, inclined towards the right; with text comprising part of Book 19, Chapters 73-82 from Buchard of Worm's collection on Canon Law, the Liber Decretum, with the section preserved part of a confessor's guide from tenth-century materials (holes, staining, creases, and some loss of text on verso).
Provenance: (1) Used as a cover in an early modern book; (2) Otto F. Ege (S. Gwara, Otto Ege’s MSS, 2013, HL157), sold by his heirs at Sotheby’s, 1985, lot 39 item 3, bought by Maggs; (3) Colker MS 373; acquired in 1986 from Maggs.
(ii) A bifolium from Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Graecismus, glossed [France, 13th century].
c.133 × 125mm. 26-29 lines in verse, ruled in plummet, in a gothic hand with extensive glosses in both margins (text lacking at upper and lower edge from cropping, all margins cropped, vellum stained).
Provenance: Colker MS 273; acquired in 1978 from B.M. Rosenthal.
(iii) A partial bifolium of scholastic Quaestiones, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [France, 13th century].
c.195 × 312mm. 2 columns of 23 lines, ruled in plummet, in a gothic script; this is an unidentified text consisting of a series of answers to theological questions, citing authorities such as Abelard and Gilbert de la Porrée (pencil note records that it was once in a book dated 1536).
Provenance: (1) James Stevens Cox (1910-1997); (2) Colker MS 519, probably acquired from Maggs.
(iv) A leaf from a Commentary on Aristotle, perhaps on his Sophistici Elenchi [England, 15th century].
c.250 × 170mm. 2 columns of 47 lines (text on lower half of one side faded, small holes in vellum from use in a binding).
Provenance: Colker MS 205; acquired in 1972 from Maggs.
(v) Nine leaves from a Calendar, use of Milan [Italy, probably Milan, 15th century].
c.100 × 75mm. 21 lines, in a gothic hand, comprising all 12 months and lacking only the second half of December (modern binding, margins cropped).
Provenance: (1) Owner’s ink-stamp with shield and coronet on first page; (2) 20th-century bookplate of Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel; (3) Christie’s, 26 March 1958, lot 91A; (4) Colker MS 188; acquired in 1971 from Maggs.
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