Accession number
MS M.939
Object title
Pauline Epistles, with commentary by Petrus Lombardus (MS M.939).
Display Date
1181.
Created
Sahagún, Spain, 1181.
Binding
16th-century (?) rough leather over wooden boards, title in black ink on lower cover: Mag[ister] S[ententiarium] S[uper] Paulum; in brown half morocco case.
Credit line
Purchased at the Chester Beatty Sale, on the Belle da Costa Green Fund, 1968.
Description
276 leaves (1 and 2 columns of 27 lines maximum for Epistle text; 53 lines maximum for commentary), bound : vellum, ill. ; 365 x 248 mm
Provenance
Made for Guterius, Abbot of the Cluniac monastery of Santos Facundo y Primitivo, Sahagún (León), who ruled from 1164-1182 (colophon on fol. 274v begins: Egregius vir guterius pastor monacho); owned by Gutierrez in the 17th-18th century (name inscribed at the bas-de-page of fol. 1); Luis Escobet (armorial bookplate on front pastedown), ca. 1900; discovered by E.A. Lowe in Barcelona in 1927 in hands of private collector; purchased through S. Babra, a bookdealer, by A. Chester Beatty (alternatively his W ms. 24A; 133) in 1927; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 9 May 1933, lot 46), bought in; Chester Beatty Sale (London, Sotheby's, 3 December 1968, lot 9); purchased at this sale through E.P. Goldsmith on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund in 1968.
Notes
Ms. Pauline Epistles with commentary by Petrus Lombardus; written and illuminated in León, Spain, at the Cistercian monastery of Santos Facundo y Primitivo, Sahagún, in 1181.
Manuscript is dated 1181 in colophon on fol. 274v.
Decoration: 11 historiated initials, 10 illuminated initials.
Textiles: 2 remaining coarse cloth curtains (linen?) sewn over illumination, fols. 2v, 194r.
Manuscript is dated 1181 in colophon on fol. 274v.
Decoration: 11 historiated initials, 10 illuminated initials.
Textiles: 2 remaining coarse cloth curtains (linen?) sewn over illumination, fols. 2v, 194r.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
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