National Library of Sweden, A 155 Medieval Latin Manuscripts in the National Library: Cataloguing and Digitization National Library of Sweden Riksbankens jubileumsfond – The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences Patrik Granholm Robin Böckerman manuscripta.se: A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden https://www.manuscripta.se/ms/101140 CC BY 4.0 Sweden Stockholm National Library of Sweden National Library of Sweden A 155 1gw57n0pztv8j6pv 004846305 Gregory I, Dialogues and Commentary on Canticles; Life of St Gangulphus (anon.)

Paper Beehive TUMBA

Modern foliation in pencil. Error in foliation: f. 1-141, 141a, 142-162. Quadam namque die 1-6(10), 7(4), 8-16(10), 17(8+1)

VisColl collation.

Catchwords at the end of each quire, although many lost due to trimming.

Centre page: National Library stamp.

Top of page, in brown ink by a modern hand: Gregorii Papae Dyalogorum Libri IV. Vita et Passio sancti Gengolfi martyris. Gregorii Papae Exposicio super Cantica Canticorum.; below the same hand: MS de anno mcccxxxi; bottom of page: National Library stamp.

Centre page: National Library stamp.

Late medieval or early modern binding. Dark brown leather over wooden boards. 4 double raised bands and endbands. Originally two hooked clasps. , upper part of cover in black ink by a medieval hand what appears to be the same text as on , but difficult to read. , stamped in gold: A 155.

Complex blind tooled and stamped decoration consisting of panels filled with foliate motifs.

 Leather heavily worn. Clasps missing. The board on the back cover appears cracked. Newer leather on spine, but this leather is also worn and the spine cracked.

Germany , 1331, see colophon on ,

Early provenance unknown. A note in German on the (and the same on ) mentions that the manuscript is the property of the cantzlei (chancery). This places the manuscript in the German realm, but unclear where.

Possibly spoils of war or purchased by Queen Christina. Listed in Vossius's catalogue of 1651 (U 212:1, p. 54).The label attached to refers to the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e) where it is listed as: Theol. in fol. no 55.

 Hedlund (1980) Lehmann (1936) 1 Gregory I Dialogues Incipiunt capitula libri primi Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 De honorato abbate monasterii fundensis quia salutari hostia post mortem non indigebimus si ante mortem deo hostia ipsi fuerimus Explicit liber quartus dyalogorum beati gregorii pape et scriptus in honore beate et gloriose semper virginis marie : on the left side in red ink by the scribe a table of contents. Books 1, 2 and 4 are introduced by a list of chapters. de Vogüé (1978-1980) Life of St Gangulphus Incipit uita et passio sancti gengolfi martiris preciosi Humane uanitatis laudes lugubresque triumphi quibus presumptuose narratur sed miram ineffabilemque dei karitatem meritis sui gengolfi queramus uidere Explicit vita et passio beati gengolfi martiris preciosi Gregory I Commentary on Canticles Incipit exposicio super cantica canticorum ex cedis beati gregorii pape POstquam a paradysi gaudiis expulsum est genus humanum Qui uiuit et regnat cum cum deo patre in unitate spiritus sancti deus per infinita secula seculorum AmeN Explicit exposicio super cantica canticorum ex cedis beati gregorii pape Anno domini mo cococo xxxoi comparatus fuit hic liber sub domino hermanno abbate PL

Parchment

Running titles in red ink. Parchment worn, dirty, and wrinkled in many places. A few holes and missing corners throughout, no loss of text. : a dark border along the edges, which may indicate this leaf was previously a pastedown. There is also a visible offprint at the very top of the leaf. Guidelines and ruling in ink. Textualis.

Top of page, in black ink: Dis buiech gehoret in die cantzlei; multiple places across the page, in brown ink by a medieval hand: a table of contents and pen trials (pater noster); bottom part of page: glued-on label from spine: No 55 Vita et Passio beati Gengolfi; National Library stamp.

Centre page, in ink: pen trials and a few lines of text which has been erased.

Marginal additions by several medieval hands. The additions consist of short corrections, but also of longer additions with signes-de-renvoi, e.g. on . In the Dialogues there are also modern additions in pencil, which consist of references to an edition.

Marginal addition in another language. The addition is either faded or partially erased.

Part of a rubric has been erased.

Main text in brown ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red.

: The individual books of the Dialogues and the two other texts are opened with plain initials with reserved interior space and some embelishment over 5-7 lines in red. The initials are partially outlined in brown ink. The enclosed spaces are filled with acanthus leaves and geometric shapes in brown ink with red details. The commentary on Canticles also contains two smaller versions of these initials on and .

: paragraphs and some sentences opened with plain initials over 1-2 lines in red.

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