Trinitati in tribus sacrifica[n]du[m].

Accession number:

PML 125704.3

Author:

Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141.

Published:

Germany , after 1492.

Description:

[2] leaves ; 14 cm. (8vo)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.

Notes:

Ms. executed after 1492 (based on date of Imitatio Christi, PML 125704.1 and Hugo de St. Victor, De meditatio, PML 125704.2) in Germany, probably southern Germany.
Text is an excerpt from De gratitudine beneficiorum Dei, et de judico de se et proximo faciendo (Miscellanea, Tit. XCIX).
Text is written on 2 leaves ([24]/5v-6r) of a quire added after Imitatio Christi ([Nuremberg: Anton Koberger], 1492, PML 125704.1/ChL 409J.
Incipit (leaf [24]/5v): "Hugo de Sa[n]cto Victore. Trinitati in tribus sacrifica[n]du[m]. In dicabo tibi o homo [et]c (Micah 6:8). Quia [et] deus, qui trinitas est, non nisi trino sacrificio digne placari potest." ... Explicit (leaf [24]/6r): "...veru[m] sacrificu[m] teq[uam] ip[su]m deo offers cum ad eius similitudinem reformaris."
For the text, see PL 177: 529-532, esp. 531A-532B.
Chancery octavo (13.4 x 9.8 cm). Watermark obscured, but appears to be large crown.
Text block is approximately 8.5 x 7 cm. blind ruled in 1 column of 20/22 lines.
Scribal hand is different than De meditando seu meditandi artificio, but incipit rubric the same.

Binding:

Modern half calf over original German beechwood boards (13.9 x 10cm). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves (modern); plain endbands. One clasp, wanting. Manuscript quire guard in final quire. Gilt titles on colored leather on spine.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombard, rubrics, and capital strokes (similar to rest of volume).

Provenance:

Modern (early 20th-century?) shelfmarks, unidentified: 103:a:46 (crossed out) and 120:d:3 (front pastedown); Julia P. Wightman (1909-1994), bookplate (front pastedown) with price code "HWM" and purchase date of 1964 (front fly verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Manuscripts

Wooden boards (Binding)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books