Peter Lombard (1096-1160)

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Лот 4 | Peter Lombard (1096-1160)
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Peter Lombard (1096-1160)

Five leaves from The Great Gloss on the Pauline Epistles, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [France, probably Paris, c.1210-20]

Five leaves from what was a splendid copy of the final and most sophisticated manifestation of the Gloss on St Paul, re-ordered and expanded by the great scholastic theologian Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris.



350 x 256mm., 5 leaves, two columns of biblical text in a handsome gothic bookhand surrounded by 55 lines of gloss in a smaller script, the text as bound here with Titus 1.13-2.12; 1 Timothy 5.1-15; 2 Thessalonians 2.4-11; 1 Timothy 5.16-6,1; and Titus 1.2-12, the texts of Titus and Timothy consecutive but here misbound, ruled in plummet, headings in red and blue, lemmata underlined in red, penwork initials alternately red or blue with contrasting flourishing extending into margins, prickings survive, catchword on f.2v, modern foliation 204, 193, 184, 194 and 203 (some marginal thumbing and darkening at edges). Brown calf binding.



Provenance:

(1) The parent manuscript was described as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf.

(2) Zisska and Kistner, Auktion II, Munich, 3 May 1988, lot 1.

(3) The Schøyen Collection, MS.124: sold at Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 82, and subsequently dispersed.



Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no 95; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; Bloomsbury, 6 July 2017, lot 10; 2 July 2019, lot 13 and 6 July 2021, lot 41. A bifolium with two large gold initial 'P's is in the Scheetz collection (S. Gwara, Bibliotheca Scheetziana, 2014, no 17, pp. 109-18.





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