Raymond of Peñafort (d. 1275)
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ID 1514461
Лот 1 | Raymond of Peñafort (d. 1275)
Оценочная стоимость
7000GBP £ 7 000 – 10 000
Summa de casibus conscientiae, and his commentary on the arbores, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [France, late 13th century]
An appealing copy from the Benedictine abbey of St Maximin, Trier, of one of the most popular thirteenth-century handbooks of confession.
c. 180 x 125mm, i (paper) + 187 + i (paper) leaves, collation: 1–228, 237 (of 8, lacking ii), 244, modern foliation in pencil 1-187, catchwords and quire signatures survive in most gatherings, two columns of 33–34 lines written below top line in gothic script with documentary features, ruled space: c.140 x 90 mm, rubrics and underlinings in red, decorated with 4- or 5-line puzzle initials in blue and red at the beginning of books at ff.1, 155v, and 182, the other books with 3-line initials in red with blue penwork, ff.42, 75v, chapters with two-line initials alternately blue or red with penwork in the other colour, one-line initials and paraphs alternately blue or red, running headings in blue and red (lacking a leaf of text after f.177, f.182 loose, some thumbing and staining, a few wormholes). 17th-century German binding: sewn on four bands laced into wood boards covered with cream blind-tooled pigskin; the edges of the leaves red, remains of two clasps at the fore-edge; the spine with a brown leather title-piece lettered in capitals ‘Reimundi / de casibu[s] / consci[...]’, and lettered ‘Raimundus / Summa / MS. circa 1300’ (rebacked, scuffed and stained).
Provenance:
(1) The manuscript has always previously been attributed to northern Italy, perhaps due to the mention of Riola (see below), but neither the script and decoration, nor the vellum, suggest an Italian origin.
(2) Johann vor der Sonnen, whose name appears in the records variously as ‘de Sole ex Velle’, ‘de Aura alias de Sole’, and ‘de Sole dictus de Aura’, a married cleric (‘clericus coniugatus’) of the Benedictine abbey of St Maximin, Trier, from 1416 to 1445.
(3) Johann Manus, of Ellentz, 15th century: at the end of the text is added in red, ‘Iste ille liber est domine dominus. Qui scripta scripta’, and, in brown ink by another hand, ‘pertinet domino Johanni manus de ellentz pastori in Riola comparatus a Johanne de aura, alias de sole dictus’; a Johann of Ellentz was a notary and alderman at Trier in 1584; Ellentz is about 40 miles / 60 km north-east of Trier, and both are on the Moselle river.
(4) The Benedictine abbey of St Maximin, Trier: with its late 16th-century ownership inscription, ‘Ex libris Imperialis Monasterii S. Maximini’, and ‘N. 155’, f. 1; the monastery was secularised in 1802 and its library dispersed.
(5) Unidentified French early 19th-century owner, with their inscription, f.i verso.
(6) Unidentified owner: their 19th or early 20th-century (heavily obliterated) inscription, f.i.
(7) Rolf Cunliffe (1899–1963), 2nd Baron Cunliffe, Governor of the Bank of England: his armorial bookplate with motto ‘Fideliter’, engraved by ‘J F Badeley 1926’.
(8) Sotheby’s, 27 May 1946, lot 791: a clipping from this catalogue stuck to the front flyleaf; bought by:
(9) Maggs Bros.: their pencil acquisition notes on the back pastedown; bought in 1949 by:
(10) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(11) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label inside upper cover, MS 95. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 53. Published in Faye & Bond, Supplement, p.402, no 95.
Content:
Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de penitentia: ‘Quoniam ut ait Iheronimus [...] sed benigno, corrigat & emendet. Explicit summa de matrimonio [added:] deo gratias Amen’ (the Summa de matrimonio, ff.155v–181, is treated as Book IV), ff.1–181; blank, f.181v; Raymond’s Commentary on the Trees of Affinity and Consanguinity: ‘Hoc modo legas arborem [...] supervacue sunt, & et ad decorem tamen. Raimundus.’, ff.182–185v; an added excerpt from Adam of Aldersbach’s versified Summula de Summa Raymundi, concerning the eucharist: ‘[I]n summis festis ad missam [...]’, ff. 186v–187.
The main text, the Summa, is a guide for Dominicans priests hearing confession; it was written by Raymond c. 1225. The final text is the focus of Thomas Izbicki, who also provides an edition, in ‘The Summula de Summa Raymundi in Gordan MS 95, Bryn Mawr College’, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 2.2 (2017), pp.524–39.
Literature
Faye & Bond Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1962, p.402, no 95.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, II, 1989, p.776.
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