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PETER LOMBARD (d.1163), Commentary on the Pauline Epistles, in Latin, single leaf from a MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[England, c.1170s]
290 x 210 mm. Written in two sizes of script, the biblical text in an extremely elegant larger script on alternate lines, using ampersands for 'et'; the commentary in smaller script using the uncrossed tironian nota for 'et', and with characteristically English features (see N.R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Conquest, 1960, p.35), ruled in plummet, all within three columns: one very narrow column of 27-28 lines with the biblical text of Romans 2:4-8, and two equal wider columns of 54 lines of the corresponding commentary (Migne, PL, 191, cols.1338D-1342B), the inter-columnar space with authorities' names 'Am'[brosius] and 'Au'[gustinus], one-line initials alternately red, green, or blue, with marginal guides in the gutter for the decorator (the margins cropped, affecting the extreme edge of the outer column of commentary, the recto formerly pasted down, with normal deposits of glue and a few holes). In a modern cloth binding. Provenance: (a) Apparently written within a decade or two of the death of the author and still in use in the 16th century, when a note was added in an italic hand in the upper margin of the verso. (b) WILFRID BLUNT (1901-1987).
A VERY EARLY AND FINELY WRITTEN ENGLISH COPY OF PETER LOMBARD'S TEXT
[England, c.1170s]
290 x 210 mm. Written in two sizes of script, the biblical text in an extremely elegant larger script on alternate lines, using ampersands for 'et'; the commentary in smaller script using the uncrossed tironian nota for 'et', and with characteristically English features (see N.R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Conquest, 1960, p.35), ruled in plummet, all within three columns: one very narrow column of 27-28 lines with the biblical text of Romans 2:4-8, and two equal wider columns of 54 lines of the corresponding commentary (Migne, PL, 191, cols.1338D-1342B), the inter-columnar space with authorities' names 'Am'[brosius] and 'Au'[gustinus], one-line initials alternately red, green, or blue, with marginal guides in the gutter for the decorator (the margins cropped, affecting the extreme edge of the outer column of commentary, the recto formerly pasted down, with normal deposits of glue and a few holes). In a modern cloth binding. Provenance: (a) Apparently written within a decade or two of the death of the author and still in use in the 16th century, when a note was added in an italic hand in the upper margin of the verso. (b) WILFRID BLUNT (1901-1987).
A VERY EARLY AND FINELY WRITTEN ENGLISH COPY OF PETER LOMBARD'S TEXT
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