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ST JEROME, Vitae Patrum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Florence, c.1460]
102 x 68mm. 155 leaves: 110(i and x now pasted onto neighbouring leaves at gutter), 2-810, 98, 10-1510, 167(of 10, defective at end), vertical catchwords in inner margin of all final versos, 15 lines written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink between two verticals and 16 horizontals, justification: 68 x 44mm, some rubrics and incipits in pink, SEVEN WHITE-VINE INITIALS four- to five-lines high with staves of burnished gold on grounds of pink, blue and green, opening folio with BORDER AND CENTRAL ARMORIAL MEDALLION, small leather fore-edge tabs (first two folios soiled, final leaf stained and verso erased, some ink losses). ?Greek 19th-century gilt metal binding with reliefs of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection on upper and lower covers, fore-edge clasp and catch (gilding rubbed).
PROVENANCE:
The style of script and illumination are consistent with the manuscript having been made in Florence in the middle of the 15th century. The coat of arms in the lower margin of the first leaf is argent a ring gules. 'Graz' is still legible on an erased photographic ex libris on the front endleaf .
CONTENT:
Jerome, Vita Pauli (PL, XXIII, 17-29) ff.1-24; Jerome, Vita Malchi (PL, XXIII, 53-60) ff.24-44v; Rufinus of Aquileia, prologue Vitae Patrum (PL, LXXIII, 739) ff.45-46v; Vita Macharii, an unidentified version opening 'Illum autem Macharium' ff.46v-75; Jerome, prologue Vita Hilarioni ff.75-77 followed by Vita Hilarioni ff.77-146 (PL XXIII, 29-53); Gregory of Nyssa Vita Moyses, lacking end ff.146v-155.
St Jerome's lives of the desert fathers, St Paul, St Malchus and St Hilarion, written between 374 and 391, were gathered together under the collective title Vitae Patrum. Authoritative texts on early monasticism and immensely influential for later hagiographical writing, they also had a certain narrative charm and were widely read throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the present manuscript Jerome's lives are augmented by accounts of two other notable residents of the Egyptian desert, another hermit father, Macarius of Alexandria and Moses.
[Florence, c.1460]
102 x 68mm. 155 leaves: 1
PROVENANCE:
The style of script and illumination are consistent with the manuscript having been made in Florence in the middle of the 15th century. The coat of arms in the lower margin of the first leaf is argent a ring gules. 'Graz' is still legible on an erased photographic ex libris on the front endleaf .
CONTENT:
Jerome, Vita Pauli (PL, XXIII, 17-29) ff.1-24; Jerome, Vita Malchi (PL, XXIII, 53-60) ff.24-44v; Rufinus of Aquileia, prologue Vitae Patrum (PL, LXXIII, 739) ff.45-46v; Vita Macharii, an unidentified version opening 'Illum autem Macharium' ff.46v-75; Jerome, prologue Vita Hilarioni ff.75-77 followed by Vita Hilarioni ff.77-146 (PL XXIII, 29-53); Gregory of Nyssa Vita Moyses, lacking end ff.146v-155.
St Jerome's lives of the desert fathers, St Paul, St Malchus and St Hilarion, written between 374 and 391, were gathered together under the collective title Vitae Patrum. Authoritative texts on early monasticism and immensely influential for later hagiographical writing, they also had a certain narrative charm and were widely read throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the present manuscript Jerome's lives are augmented by accounts of two other notable residents of the Egyptian desert, another hermit father, Macarius of Alexandria and Moses.