Peter Lombard, The Sentences

France, 12th century, last 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, vols. –, 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, SL1, SR1, RCI

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 295 × 220 mm

Watermark 1

SR1,

Motif: Unidentified motif.

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–223v

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 295 × 225 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Book numbers in black ink at top of each verso.

Collation

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

Note: VisColl collation.

Signatures: Quire 1-27, quire numbers on last verso; quire 28, quire number on first recto.

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

Description:

Pregothic minuscule.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top right, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘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:

(f. 1r) illuminated foliate opening initial C over 8 lines in brown and green with floral patterns in red, green, blue, and brown against a blue and gold backround. (f. 3r), (f. 64r), (f. 111v), (f. 155v) foliate book initials over 8-14 lines in blue, red, green and brown with floral and animal patterns, a couple inhabited. (ff. 3v–221v) plain section and chapter initials over 2-5 lines alternating in red, blue, and green with contrasting flourishing in red, blue or green, occasionally with reserved interior shapes (e.g. (f. 215v)). (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 paper label: ‘e. 30. 3. 13.’; visible in ink on a the remnants of a paper label: ‘XXVIII ’.

Binding dimensions: 310 × 250 × 75 mm

Condition: Straps missing.

Contemporary: No

History

Origin

12th century, last 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 on f. 222v in a 15th-century hand, 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. It is not known how the manuscript came to the National Library. It is listed in Jaches's catalogue of 1698 (U 122) as ‘192’ and given the new number ‘26 ’; it is listed as number ‘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.