Peter Lombard, The Sentences

France, 12th century, second half, or 13th century, first half

Parchment

i, 223, i' leaves

295 × 220–225 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1r–221v) Peter Lombard, The Sentences

Incipit: CUPIENTES aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate

Explicit: per media ad pedes usque uia duce peruenit

Note:

As part of the planned text is included the marginal reference system for the patristic authorites associated with Lombard's commentary and developed in the schools of northern France in the 12th century (see Rouse, p. 207).

f. 18A: bound into the manuscript, a leaf the width of one column (stub between f. 22and f. 23), ruled and containing a total of 44 lines of text (recto and verso) in the main hand, keyed to f. 19rb, where the lines have been omitted.

Editions: PL, vol. 192, cols. 521–962.

1.1 (ff. 1r–1v) Prologue

1.2 (ff. 1v–3r) Chapter rubrics, Book I

1.3 (ff. 3r–62r) Book I

1.4 (ff. 62r–64r) Chapter rubrics, Book II

1.5 (ff. 64r–110v) Book II

1.6 (ff. 110v–111v) Chapter rubrics, Book III

1.7 (ff. 111v–153v) Book III

1.8 (ff. 153v–155v) Chapter rubrics, Book IV

1.9 (ff. 155v–221v) Book IV

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, f. SL1, SR1, RCI

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 295 × 220 mm

Watermark 1

SR1,

Motif: Unidentified motif.

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–223

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 295 × 225 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Book number in black ink in top margin of each verso.

Collation

Formula: 1-27(8), 28(1+2+1+1+2)

Note: VisColl collation

Signatures: Quire numbers on last verso of quires 1-27 and on first recto of quire 28.

Condition

Textblock

Some holes and traces of stitching. f. 28v, red ink smudged.

Layout

Locus: ff. 1r–221v

Columns: 2

Ruled lines: 40

Written area: 220/225 × 145/155 mm

Note: Ruling in lead point; prickings intermittently visible.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1r–221v)Pregothic.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top right, in pencil by a modern hand: a note on the donation note on (f. 222v), ‘Från Plessis-le-Tours i Frankrike; skänkt till därvarande kollegium af Ludvig XI's almoseutdelare magister Johannes Gareau’; bottom right, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘1695. f. 112 1698 f. 125’.

Textblock

(f. 1r) Top of page, in brown ink by an early modern hand: ‘Magister Sententiarum’.

(ff. 1r–221r) Corrections in main hand throughout.

(ff. 3v–221v) Intermittent annotations, faded and no longer legible.

(ff. 4r–221v) Marginal annotations in light brown ink by a medieval hand giving references to biblical passages and the occasional exegetical comment (e.g. (f. 205r)).

(ff. 3r–220r) Marginal annotations in black ink by a medieval hand indicating the number of the distinctio.

(f. 222r) Top of page in brown ink by a medieval hand: a list of "opinions in the Sentences which are no longer held" (‘opiniones magistri in sentenciis que modo non tenentur’).

(f. 222v) Top of page, in brown ink by a medieval hand: ‘de iudiciis cum deputati non est credendum id est sue natio nationis’. Below, in brown ink by a contemporary hand: ‘Istud librum sententiarum legauit magister Iohannes garelli ebroicensis diocesis elemosinarius serenissimi principis Regis ludouici quondam scolarius et cappellanus collegii de plesseyo magistro et scolaribus dicti collegii de plesseyo ad usum ipsorum scolarium pro incathenando in eorum libraria et non ad alios usus applicandum’.

(f. 223v) Top of page, in black ink by a medieval hand: ‘Magister Sententiarum’. Below, in the same ink: ‘88’. Top and bottom of page: various pen trials. Bottom left in brown ink by a contemporary hand: ‘Reatus idem est quod peccatum pro deformitate et culpa ut dicit magister 2 distinctione 32 capitulo 2 articulo [--- 10 chars ---] dicit magister hoc est enim non habere peccatum non esse remissum peccatum quibus temporibus non sunt nuptie celebrande 4 distinctione 32 capitulo ultimo ’.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in brown ink; chapter rubrics in red.

Initials:

The larger initials are executed in a homogenous manner, consisting of vine stems and leaves painted in blue, red and green with white highlights, and a background consisting of a blue or a red quadrangular field, and golden filling. A black outline occurs but not throughout. There are two inhabited (zoomorphic) initials and one historiated.

(f. 1r): foliated initial 'C' over 8 lines.

(f. 3r): historiated initial 'U', Samson and the lion. Samson is straddling the standing white lion, prying open its gap. He has long hair and blue clothing.

(f. 64r): foliated initial 'C' over 8 lines.

(f. 111v): inhabited foliated initial 'C' over 9 lines, red background. Quadruped.

(f. 155v): inhabited foliated initial 'S' over 14 lines, red background. Dragons. Small pen-flourished decoration on left side and a short marginal decoration.

(ff. 3v–221v): plain initials over 2-5 lines alternating in red, blue, and green, occasionally intarsiated, with contrasting flourishing in red, blue or green.

(ff. 1v–3r), (ff. 62r–64r), (ff. 110v–111v), (ff. 154r–155v): capitals in red or alternating between red and blue.

Binding

Description:

Early modern binding. Parchment over cardboard. 4 raised bands and endbands; endbands visible. 2 holes, back and front, for straps. Spine, in brown ink: ‘Magister sententiarum’; in pencil: ‘Lombardus’; in ink: ‘26’; stamped in gold: ‘A 151’; in ink on a paper label: ‘e. 30. 3. 13.’; visible in ink on the remnants of a paper label: ‘XXVIII’.

Binding dimensions: 310 × 250 × 75 mm

Condition: Straps missing.

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

12th century, second half, or 13th century, first half. The layout and style of decoration in combination with the manuscript's early provenance would suggest France as the place of origin.

Provenance

According to a note in a 15th-century hand on f. 222v, the manuscript was given to the community at Plessis-lèz-Tours by ‘Iohannes Garelli’, almoner of Louis XI. An identical note is found in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 6833, p. 161.

Acquisition

Acquisition date unknown, but the manuscript has belonged to the National Library since at least the 17th century; it is listed in Jaches's catalogue of 1695 (U 118:10) as no. 192 and in his catalogue of 1698 (U 122) as no. ‘26’. It is listed as no. ‘26’ in the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e), and as ‘e. 30. 3. 13’ in Hammarsköld's catalogue of the 19th century (U 133). The signum partially visible on the paper label at the bottom of the Spine has not been identified.