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From the Collection of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan
Isidore of Seville, Julian of Toledo, et al.
Compilation of patristic texts, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Germany, second half 15th century]
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Isidore of Seville, Julian of Toledo, et al.
Compilation of patristic texts, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Germany, second half 15th century]
A compilation of patristic texts, including Julian of Toledo and Isidore of Seville.
200 x 138mm. iv + ii + 117 + iv leaves, complete, collation: 11(of 2, ii a cancelled blank), 210(of 12, i-ii cancelled blanks), 3-912, 1010, 1112, modern foliation A-B and 1-117 followed here, vertical catchwords survive, c.35-40 lines written in a small Gothic cursive, written space: 140 x 80mm, capitals touched in yellow, initials, paraphs and underlining in red throughout (some edges frayed, some foxing and staining, some worm-holing, outer margins of final three leaves repaired but deteriorating). Bound in 20th-century brown cloth with Howard Goodhart's gold crane stamped on cover.
Provenance:
(1) John Cresswell Brigham (d.1936), his sale at Sotheby's, 18 November 1935, lot 618, to 'Marks', according to RBH, i.e. Marks & Co. of 84 Charing Cross Rd.: catalogue clipping pasted in on inside upper cover.
(2) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label on inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(3) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label on inside upper cover, MS 112. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 59. Published in Faye & Bond, Supplement, p.404, no 112.
Content:
Table of contents titled 'Variorum Patrum Opuscula', added in a later hand, ff.A-Bv; Julian Toletanus, De Comprobatione Aetatis Sextae, beginning: 'Accedam ad te domine in humilitate spiritus' (see Migne, Patrologia Latina, 96, 537-586), ff.1-37v; Isidore of Seville, De fide catholica, the text proper beginning: 'Iudei nefaria incredulitate' (Migne, 83, 449-538), ff.38-80v; Ps. Jerome, Liber de predestinatione, beginning; 'Quidam de predestinatione et divina gratia disputante asserare visi sunt', ff.80v-98; Isidore of Seville, Proemia, the text beginning: 'Plenitudo novi et veteris testamenti', (Migne, 83, 155-180), ff.98-107; Allegorie Quaedam Sacrae Scripturae, beginning: 'Adam figuram gestavit Christi' (Migne, 83, 97-127), ff.107-117v.
Compilation of patristic texts, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Germany, second half 15th century]
A compilation of patristic texts, including Julian of Toledo and Isidore of Seville.
200 x 138mm. iv + ii + 117 + iv leaves, complete, collation: 11(of 2, ii a cancelled blank), 210(of 12, i-ii cancelled blanks), 3-912, 1010, 1112, modern foliation A-B and 1-117 followed here, vertical catchwords survive, c.35-40 lines written in a small Gothic cursive, written space: 140 x 80mm, capitals touched in yellow, initials, paraphs and underlining in red throughout (some edges frayed, some foxing and staining, some worm-holing, outer margins of final three leaves repaired but deteriorating). Bound in 20th-century brown cloth with Howard Goodhart's gold crane stamped on cover.
Provenance:
(1) John Cresswell Brigham (d.1936), his sale at Sotheby's, 18 November 1935, lot 618, to 'Marks', according to RBH, i.e. Marks & Co. of 84 Charing Cross Rd.: catalogue clipping pasted in on inside upper cover.
(2) Howard Lehman Goodhart (1884-1951), stockbroker and bibliophile: his leather book label on inside upper cover. By descent to his daughter:
(3) Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994): her leather book label on inside upper cover, MS 112. On deposit at Bryn Mawr, BMC 59. Published in Faye & Bond, Supplement, p.404, no 112.
Content:
Table of contents titled 'Variorum Patrum Opuscula', added in a later hand, ff.A-Bv; Julian Toletanus, De Comprobatione Aetatis Sextae, beginning: 'Accedam ad te domine in humilitate spiritus' (see Migne, Patrologia Latina, 96, 537-586), ff.1-37v; Isidore of Seville, De fide catholica, the text proper beginning: 'Iudei nefaria incredulitate' (Migne, 83, 449-538), ff.38-80v; Ps. Jerome, Liber de predestinatione, beginning; 'Quidam de predestinatione et divina gratia disputante asserare visi sunt', ff.80v-98; Isidore of Seville, Proemia, the text beginning: 'Plenitudo novi et veteris testamenti', (Migne, 83, 155-180), ff.98-107; Allegorie Quaedam Sacrae Scripturae, beginning: 'Adam figuram gestavit Christi' (Migne, 83, 97-127), ff.107-117v.
Literature
Faye & Bond Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1962, p.404, no 112.
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