Richard of St-Victor (d. 1173)
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ID 1514428
Lot 6 | Richard of St-Victor (d. 1173)
Valeur estimée
6000GBP £ 6 000 – 9 000
De XII patriarchis, De interiore homine, and De Moyse et Aarone, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, San Michele a Murano, Venice, early 15th century]
An unusual example of 12th-century texts copied in 15th-century Humanistic script, from the Camaldolese monastery of San Michele, Murano, attractively decorated, in the remains of its medieval binding.
c. 290 x 200mm, i + 64 + i leaves, folded in-4to, watermarks in the form of a triple mount in a circle surmounted by a cross, complete, collation: 1–512, 64, catchwords throughout, 38 lines written in a fine and very regular Humanistic script, ruled space: c. 205 x 140 mm, rubrics in red, with a change of hand at f.53v to a scribe writing a more gothic hand, each work opening with a large puzzle initial in blue and red with penwork and wash ornament (some very light marginal damp-staining, overall in good condition). Bound in cream-covered leather sewn on three wide slit bands laced into medieval beech(?) wood boards, blind-tooled overall with a lattice and triangles pattern, with vestiges of five metal bosses in the corners and the centre, two clasps at the fore-edge, and a chain-staple at the lower fore-edge of the front board (rebacked with mid-brown leather, some wormholes, lacking bosses, clasps and fasteners).
Provenance:
(1) The Camaldolese monastery of San Michele, Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon: an inscription on the front pastedown has almost entirely crumbled away, but was recorded by de Ricci in 1935 as: ‘Iste liber [e]s[t monasterii] Sci [M]ich[ae]l[is] d[e Mur]i[a]no, etc’, and it can be identified as San Michele’s MS 795, described in detail by Mittarelli, 1779, where the rest of the inscription is transcribed as: ‘Ordinis Camaldulensis diocesis Torcellane’; the front board of the binding shows that the volume was chained.
(2) Johann Kaspar Lippert (1729–1800), Baron von Lippert (according to de Ricci), historian and librarian, most of whose library was acquired in 1921 by the Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
(3) Emil Hirsch (according to de Ricci): with a clipping from a dealer’s catalogue description in German and inscribed in pencil with a stock number ‘24521’ (front pastedown); acquired in July 1931 by:
(4) Ernst F. Detterer (1888–1947), American librarian, calligrapher, and typographer, of Chicago; after his death his collection of manuscripts was sold by:
(5) Brentano’s Bookstores, Inc., Chicago: offered in their Catalogue No 119, Illuminated Manuscripts, Incunabula, Typography, and Fine Printing, Including Selections from the Library of Ernst F. Detterer, Custodian of the Wing Collection, Newberry Library, 1931–1947 [1947/8], no 3, priced $125; reoffered in their Catalogue 121 [1949?], no 6, priced $95; bought in 1950 by:
(6) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(7) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label inside upper cover, MS 102. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 23. Published in De Ricci, Census, I, p. 602 no 7 and Faye & Bond, Supplement, p.403, no 102.
Content:
Three works, the first two attributed here to Richard of St-Victor: ‘Incipit liber Richardi de patriarchis. de studio sapientie et eius commendatione. Rubrica. Beniamin adolescentulus in mentis excessu [...] divine revelationi humana ratio applaudit. Amen. Explicit liber Richardi de xij patriarchis’, ff.1–37; ‘Incipit liber Richardi de interiori homine. Sero quod misi quod petenti promisi [...] nec curata medicamine, neque fota oleo. Explicit liber Ricardi de interiori homine.’, ff.37–60; De Moyse et Aarone: ‘Moyses & Aaron in sacerdotibus eius & Samuel inter eos qui invocant nomen eius. Quid queso novi accidit? [...] Moyses & Aaron in sacerdotibus eius & Samuel inter eos qui invocant nomen eius’, ff.60v–62v.
Richard of St-Victor (d. 1173), one of the most influential religious thinkers of his time, was educated at the university of Paris and rose to fame as a prolific author and prior of the important Augustinian abbey of St-Victor, in the same city, from 1162 until his death. De XII patriarchis (On the Twelve Patriarchs), sometimes called ‘Benjamin Minor’, was described by Richard as a way to prepare the mind for contemplation, as another alternate title suggests: De praeparatione animi ad contemplationem.
Illustration:
The back pastedown and facing page are filled with a colour-washed drawing, of several buildings with enclosed gardens or yards, bounded both above and below by water: presumably representing part of the site, or other property, of San Michele, Murano (see Provenance).
Literature
Giovanni Benedetto Mittarelli, Bibliotheca codicum manuscriptorum monasterii s. Michaelis Venetiarum, prope Murianum, una cum appendice librorum impressorum seculi XV, ed. by Jacobus Ceruti (Venice, 1779), col. 1017.
S. De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I, 1961, p.602, no 7.
Faye & Bond Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1962, p.403, no 102.
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