Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Revelation

14th century, first quarter

Parchment

100 leaves

225–230 × 165 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1ra–100rb) Richard of Saint Victor, Commentary on Revelation

Rubric: Incipit prologus in exposicione libri apocalipsis

Incipit: Accipe karissime frater hoc sentenciarum munus

Explicit: qui nec loco capitur nec tempore mutatur immensus et eternus qui est deus benedictus in secula seculorum amen

Final rubric: Explicit liber exposicionis in apocalipsim

Note: Each book is introduced by a list of chapters.

Edition: PL, vol. 196, cols. 683–888.

1.1 (ff. 1ra–1rb) Prologue

1.2 (ff. 1rb–1vb) Prologue

1.3 (ff. 1vb–33ra) Book 1

1.4 (ff. 33ra–49va) Book 2

1.5 (ff. 49va–60rb) Book 3

1.6 (ff. 60rb–70ra) Book 4

1.7 (ff. 70ra–79rb) Book 5

1.8 (ff. 79rb–88ra) Book 6

1.9 (ff. 88ra–100rb) Book 7

Physical Description

Secundo folio

De templo aperto

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, RCI

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 225 × 165 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–100

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 230 × 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Running titles in brown ink.

Collation

Formula: 1-12(8), 13(4)

Note: VisColl collation

Catchwords: Catchwords at the end of every quire.

Condition

Textblock

Parchment worn and stained; holes in the parchment in several places, no loss of text.

Layout

Columns: 2

Written lines: 31

Written area: 175 × 125 mm

Note: Pricking in the margin.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Late pregothic or early Gothic textualis.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top left corner, in red ink by a modern hand: ‘A 166 a’; bottom right corner in blue ink: ‘1944/18’ (accession number); next to it: ‘H. 4.’.

Textblock

(f. 1r) Bottom of the page, in brown ink by a modern hand: ‘Ex Bibliotheca’ (the rest erased); National Library stamp.

(f. 2r) Bottom of page in black ink by a medieval hand: ‘capitula n in inuerso lxxxix’.

(ff. 90r–90v) Drawings of a sword and a person in profile in the margins.

(ff. 1r–100r) Frequent marginal addtions by several medieval hands. Many are corrections or additions of missing passages keyed to the text with signe-de-renvoi, others seem to be comments on the text. Frequent manicules in different styles, nota-marks, and other symbols in the margin. On (ff. 16v–19r) there are extensive additions in brown ink in the margin.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, lemmata underlined in red.

Initials:

(f. 1r): Opening plain initial A over 4 lines in red with interior reserved shapes. (ff. 1r–100r): paragraphs are opened by plain initials over 2 lines in red.

Binding

Description:

Modern or early modern binding. Limp binding in green leather. LCO, red leather label with text in gold: ‘COMMENT IN APOCALIP’; green leather label with text in gold: ‘MS DU XIV SIECLE’; National Library book label with current signum.

Binding dimensions: 250 × 180 × 30 mm

Condition: Leather worn, spine partially torn off at the top.

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

14th century, first quarter

Provenance

Origin and provenance unknown. On f. 1r a modern addition orginally contained information about a previous owner, but the name has been erased. One of the labels on LCO is in French, which indicates a provenance in France or a French speaking environment.