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Epistles of Paul ; Missal bifolium fragment : [manuscript]

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f. 1-155v. [Paul. Epistles]. Incipit: Paulus servus ihesu christi vocatus apostolus segregatus in evangelium dei. Explicit: Salutant vos de italia fratres. Gracia dei cum omnibus vobis. Amen. Latin. Pauline epistles in the order of the Vulgate, including the Epistle to the Hebrews. Variants within the text match those of Paris, B. N. lat. 104 as listed by S. Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (Paris 1893) 143. On this Paris manuscript and the"Italian group," see H. Quentin, Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate (Rome-Paris 1922) 361-84. The text is divided by a pre-Langton system of capitulation, and has prologues. On f. 1, the gloss is headed"ex commentario anbrosii [sic] super epistolas"; however, the gloss is the one generally attributed to Anselm of Laon,"Pro altercatione.". front f. iii recto-verso; back f.i recto-verso. [Missal bifolium fragment]. Rubric: frnt f. iii recto-verso; bck f.i recto-verso. Latin. Contains the offices for Wednesday and Thursday of Holy Week. Music: Neumes in campo aperto. Assigned Date: s. XI.
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Date
[between 1140 and 1160] ; [between 1000 and 1099]
Call number
mssHM 56
Provenance
On f. iv verso, erased inscription, s. XV: iste liber est conventus lucce __?___; below that, s. XVI: Emi ego frater M__?___ aliis libris venderent. On ff. 1 and 70, the stamp "Di casa Minutoli-Tegrimi." Reproductions of the stamp as it occurs in J.A. 3216 on pl. XXII and p. 53 of Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts...of Major J. R. Abbey ; a list of other Minutoli-Tegrimi manuscripts in England on p. 55, n. 2. The collection of Conte Eugenio Minutoli-Tegrimi of Lucca was sold in 1871; this manuscript in the catalogue, p. 31, n. 164. On the front pastedown, ff. 1 and 155v, the stamped armorial ex libris of the Swiss-born artist Friedrich De Schennis (1852-1918); it may have been De Schennis who added copious notes in German on f. i recto and verso regarding historical aspects of Paul's life and his theology; sold to the Leipzig bookdealer, Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann; alien sequestrated property sale by Anderson, New York, 17 February 1919, n. 35 to G. D. Smith.
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RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Associated people
Schennis, Friedrich von, (1852-1918,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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