ff. 1-86v: [Hannibaldus de Hannibaldis, Super libros I-IV Sent.; abbreviated version of books 1 and 3 only] Incipit: Cupientes aliquid et cetera. Hic queruntur quinque. Primo utrum aliquis veritati insistere debeat que excedit facultatem sui intellectus ... Explicit: fides est una licet diversa enuciabilia formentur sed diversum modum accipiendi ut accipiatur presens preterita vel futura. [ff. 87-89v blank] ff. 90-100v. [Unidentified commentary on the third book of the Sentences]: Incipit: Cum igitur venit plenitudo temporis ut ait apostolus misit deus filium suum natum de virgine et cetera. Determinato in libro precedenti de rerum exitu a principio. In hoc tertio incipit magister determinare de reditu divinarum rerum in finem scilicet deum ... Explicit: In oppositionem prime partis conclusionis arguitur Omnes virtutes anime vegetalis scilicet active secundum commentationem qui in secondo de anima ponit hanc distinctionem. Commentaries on Peter Lombard, written in northern Germany in the second half of the fifteenth century; bound before Werner Rolevinck. Fasciculus temporum. [Cologne: Ludwig von Renchen?, not after 1483]. ff. 1-100 verso. Paper. First part of art. 1 apparently copied on quires constructed with the outer bifolium in parchment, of which only 1 leaf survives, f. 33, the rest having been cut away: 1¹⁴(-1, 14) 2¹²(-1, 12) 3¹²(-1; the twelfth leaf is f. 33) 4¹²(-1, 12) 5¹²(-1, 12) 6-8¹² 9¹²(-12, art. 2). Remaining catchwords on f. 33 (does not match following leaf) and for quires 6 and 7. No signatures on quire 1; quire and leaf signatures on quires 2-5 begin respectively b2, b3, b4, b5; stubs remain between these quires and the adjacent leaves often are partially cut through. Art. 1 in 2 columns of 46 lines ruled in lead; written in a littera textualis. Art. 2 in 2 columns of 48 lines, ruled in hard point; written in a small littera cursiva. Watermarks: First text: Lettre P similar to Briquet 8685, Düsseldorf 1464 and to Briquet 8690, Nivelles 1461; second text: Lettre P similar to Briquet 8598, Colmar 1465. Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 10-line, crudely done in red with leaf infilling; 3- and 2-line red initials, a few with simple decoration such as a jester's profile on f. 7 and a monk's profile on f. 8v; in the lower margin of f. 6, a sketch in red ink of a hound chasing a hare. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/26/2012. Covers removed; only the front pastedown and part of the back remain, the latter from a Hebrew manuscript [13th-15th century?], Babylonian Talmud, Sotah 46b. 103533a. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160. Sententiarum libri IV Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
From the library of Leander van Ess; his name and number"416" in pale red ink on f. 1 of the manuscript. Sold by him to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Possibly n. 258 (but printed in Basle: Henricus Wirzburg de Vach, 1481) or n. 890 (but printed in Strasbourg: Johannes Grüninger, 1480) in the Catalogus Incunabulorum of former van Ess books in the Phillipps collection; the covers of the book are missing and the Catalogus number, normally on a label on the spine, is no longer present, if indeed it ever were. In ink on the former front pastedown and on a square printed label on the lower spine, the number"537." N. 618 in the bound Rosenbach typescript in Rare Book Department files.
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