Works by Augustine and Julianus Pomerius : [manuscript]
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Paschasius Radbertus, Saint, 786-approximately 860 Pomerius, Julianus Davies, Robert, -1710, former owner Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Enchiridion Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 19915
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ff. 1-61: [Augustine, Enchiridion]: Incipit prologus sancti augustini episcopi in enchiridion, Dici non potest dilectissime fili laurenti ... [f. 2:] Incipiunt capitula libri sequentis, i, De proprio catholice fidei fundamento; ii, Quid inter sperare et timere ... [f. 3:] lxx, De lege quod impleri non possit; lxxi, De baptismo boni hominis vel mali; lxxii, De karitate. Expliciunt capitula. Incipit liber sancti augustini episcopi yponiensis qui dicitur Enchiridion. De proprio fidei catholice fundamento, i, Certum vero propriumque fidei catholice fundamentum christus est ... sed cum electis premium vite eterne recipere mereamur quod ipse prestare dignetur qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit liber sancti augustini yponensis episcopi qui vocatur enchiridion. ff. 61-63v: [Pascasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine Christi]: Rubric: Relatio cuiusdam sapientis de manifesta visione corporis christi. Incipit: Nemo qui sanctorum vitas et exempla legerit ... Explicit: nisi a quo creata est in utero virginis ut verbum caro fieret amen. [Note added, in 16th c. hand, in the upper margin of f. 61 identifies the text]. ff. 63v-66v: [Unidentified short passages with the following rubrics: De superbia, De periurio, Distancia publice et occulte peccandi, De tribus peccatorum causis et earum remediis, De omnipotencia dei, Septem sunt gradus, De triplici spelunca vulpium]: Rubric: Contemplatio abbatis macharii. Incipit: Eo tempore quo fratres accedebant ad sacramenta vidit abbas macharius ... Explicit: hoc est deitatem suam super eum reclinare valit. Augustinus, Preces valent ad ea impetranda que se precantibus concessurum esse prescivit deus. Item, Homo si nolit omnino non peccat. Sed si peccat aut si non peccat hoc totum etiam prenoscit deus. f. 66v blank. ff. 67-170v: [Julianus Pomerius, De vita contemplativa]: Rubric: Incipit prosperi liber primus de vita contemplativaque activa. Incipit: Quod ea sit vite contemplative proprietas ubi deus mundo corde videbitur, Contemplativa vita est in qua creatura creatorem suum ... Explicit: sed pro rebus enunciandis verba sunt instituta. Explicit prosperi liber tercius de viciis et virtutibus. ff. 169-170v blank. [Here the text is preceded by a chapter list and a prologue: Incipiunt capitula libri primi, Quod ea sit vite contemplative [added in pencil in the margin: proprietas] ubi deus mundo corde videbitur; ii, De qualitate vite future ... [f. 68:] Incipit prologus, Diu multumque renisus sum voluntati tue mi domine studiosissime pontificum iuliane ...] Title supplied by cataloger. Theological works by Augustine, Pascasius Radbertus, Julianus Pomerius, and passages from an unidentified work; written in approximately 1200 in England. Span folios: ff. 1-170v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-7⁸ 8¹⁰(through f. 66) 9-21⁸. Catchwords of scribe i in the gutter, and of scribe ii in a small script in the center lower margin. Quire signatures in roman numerals in the middle of the upper margin, first leaf recto, "vii" on f. 49 and "viii" on f. 57; another signature (?) trimmed away in the middle of the lower margin, last leaf verso, f. 24v. 21 long lines; 2 columns of 21 lines in the chapter list to art. 1, ff. 2v-3; ruled in lead, the 2 top and bottom lines full across and an additional narrow double rule in the 3 outer margins through f. 66; thereafter, usually only the single top and bottom line full across and with ruling in the lower margin omitted; slash prick marks in the 3 outer margins; 2 parallel sets of pricking in the outer margin of quire 8. Written in a minuscule script by 2 scribes, both writing above the top line and using the flex mark in punctuation: i, ff. 1-66; ii, ff. 67-168v. Decoration: Opening initial, f. 3v, 6-line, tan and blue, infilled with stylized vines and leaves in blue, tan, green and orange-red, on a tan ground within a green frame; 2-line initials in light blue, green or orange-red with infilling and extensions of stylized leaves through f. 66; thereafter 5- to 2-line unornamented initials in the same colors, except for a poor attempt at leaf infilling on ff. 123v-124. Notes in the margins in the scribe's[?] hand for the first text, enclosed in decorated and tinted frames, e.g. f. 5, within a ship; f. 6, on a pedestal; f. 36v, supported by grotesques with a dog's and a rabbit's head and with fish tails; f. 46, encircled by a dragon sprouting leaves from his mouth. In the lower margin of f. 42, a half figure of Christ[?] blessing. Crude sketches in lead of a man riding a grotesque on f. 41v, and of dogs' heads on ff. 139v, 140; sketches for initials on ff. 30, 114v. Instructions to the rubricator frequently remaining, written vertically in the outer margins. Medieval pagination in early form arabic numerals in lead in the middle of the upper margin, ff. 3v-34, [1]-2; foliation in ink, 13th/14th c., in roman numerals in the middle of the outer margin verso, i-clxx. Considerable damage from water from f. 155 on. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/6/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in contemporary white calf[?] over boards (back board gone), sewn onto 4 bands; semi-circular tabs at head and foot of spine, lined with pink deerskin and embroidered around the edges in blue and white; the whole covered, 15th c.[?], by a heavy parchment or deerskin wrapper with a fore edge flap (now partially cut off) from the front cover to the back; remains of a pink strap closing to a central pin (now missing) on the back cover; 3 (of 4) bosses on front cover in the characteristic fluted, truncated cone shape of St. Mary's at Holme Cultram; holes from former label at bottom center of back cover; bookmark of white skin, now loose, but once tied to a loop at the foot of the spine. Modern red morocco label on spine. HM 19915. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Theology--Early works to 1800 Sketches England 13th century. (aat) Grotesques England 13th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Belonged from an early date to the Cistercian abbey of St. Mary at Holme Cultram, Cumberland: on f. i verso, late 12th c. inscription, "Liber Sancte Marie De Homcoltran. Hec Continentur in hoc volumine Enchiridion Augustini, Prosper De vita contemplativa"; on f. 1, in the lower margin, 13th c, "Liber sancte Marie de holmo"; on the same leaf, in the upper margin, the pressmark, 15th c., "liber lxxvi." Ker, MLGB, 102. Belonged to the Welsh antiquary Robert Davies of Llannerch and Gwysaney (ca. 1658-1710). The earliest known catalogue of the Llannerch manuscripts, dated 1740, lists this manuscript as n. 17 (that number in ink on f. i); the manuscript also appears in the 1778 catalogue as n. 42 (on a paper label on the spine). Later, when the collection had passed through inheritance to Philip Bryan Davies Cooke, a list of its contents was printed by the HMC, 6th Report, pt. I (1887-88); this manuscript on p. 418. When owned by Lt.-Col. Philip Ralph Davies-Cooke (b. 1896), the collection was placed on deposit in the National Library of Wales, 1947-59, where this book bore the number "Gwysaney 2" (in pencil on the front pastedown). For the history of the collection, see H. D. Emanuel, "The Gwysaney Manuscripts," National Library of Wales Journal 7 (1952) 326-43. Davies-Cooke sale, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 197 with a plate of f. 3v to Maggs for the Huntington Library.
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