ID 794588
Lot 20 | Petrus del Casta (scribe)
Valeur estimée
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Pauline Epistles, Catholic Epistles and the Apocalypse, glossed, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Limoges, c.1100]
A superb example of Limoges Romanesque manuscript production of the first half of the 12th century, written by Petrus del Casta for the Augustinian Abbey of St-Jean-de-Côle, and containing one of the earliest surviving texts of the Glossa Ordinaria.
220 x 155mm. i+168+i leaves, collation: 1-38, 47 (of 8, lacking i), 58, 67 (of 8, lacking viii), 7-128, 136, 14-178, 186, 1910, 204, 21-228, modern foliation in pencil followed here, central column of 20 lines in a late Carolingian hand, surrounding and interlinear gloss on ff.1-139 in a minute script, no gloss on ff.139v-152v, and the gloss on ff.153-168v in a mid-13th-century hand, ruled space: 156 x 65mm., versal initials alternately red and blue, running headers and rubrics in red, spaces left for decorated initials, remains of a large decorated initial in characteristic Limoges style of interlaced celtic design including a dragon and two eagles’ heads on f.1 (first leaf fragmentary and opening leaves gnawed at edges, lacking leaves after ff.24 and 46 with the opening of Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, a gathering after f.139, and a number of leaves at the end, some wormholing, occasional marginal staining and natural flaws to the vellum, lower margin of f.116 cropped without affecting text, else in good condition). 20th-century Romanesque-imitation binding of dark red goatskin over wooden boards.
Provenance:
(1) This is one of an important group of manuscripts written in Limoges mainly by the scribe and illuminator Petrus del Casta for the Augustinian Abbey of St-Jean-de-Côle in Perigord, founded c.1083 by Raynaud, Bishop of Perigueux (1081-99). Cited in C. de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade, 1984, pp.4 and 15, ill. pl.2.
(2) Christie’s 17 November 1976, lot 366; subsequently Quaritch, 2005.
Content: Pauline Epistles, glossed, ff.1-131v: Romans f.1, 1 Corinthians f.25 (lacking opening), 2 Corinthians f.47 (lacking opening), Galatians f.62v, Ephesians f.70, Philippians f.78, Colossians f.83v, 1 Thessalonians f.89, 2 Thessalonians f.94, 1 Timothy f.97, 2 Timothy f.103v, Titus f.108v, Philemon f.111v, Hebrews f.113; Catholic Epistles ff.132-152v: James f.132, 1 Peter f.138v (lacking end), 2 Peter f.140 (lacking beginning), 1 John f.142, 2 John f.148v, 3 John f.149v, Jude f.150v; The Apocalypse ff.153-169v (lacking end).
Petrus del Casta is known from the colophon in a Homilies on Ezechiel (ex Phillipps no 934⁄2708, then Chester Beatty W MS 18, sold at Sotheby’s 3 December 1968, lot 4 to Maggs, and subsequently Abbey Sale, 20 June 1978, lot 2976) and has been associated with at least three other splendid manuscripts of the period: the spectacular Limoges Missal (Paris, BnF, Mss. Latin 9438); a Bible at the Bibliothèque Mazarine (lat. I and II); and the Bible of Saint-Yrieix (Bibliothèque municipale de Saint-Yrieix, Ms.1). According to Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, he may perhaps also have been an illuminator (see D. Gaborit, ‘Deux bibles limousines du début du XII siècle’, Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1970, pp.197-8).
The Glossa Ordinaria was one of the great achievements of the 12th century: a combination of the scriptural text interwoven with patristic and medieval commentaries used by students and teachers until the end of the Middle Ages, originally compiled under the direction of Anselm of Laon (d.1117) and his brother Ralph (d.1134), but gradually augmented over the decades that followed. This is therefore one of the earliest witnesses to the Glossa, found here in its unfinished state, extending throughout the Pauline Epistles, with the Canonical Epistles glossed in a contemporary but probably different hand as far as f.138v and then stopping.
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