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Pauline Epistles, with commentary by Petrus Lombardus (MS M.939).

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.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification