Details

Standardized Title:

Bible. Corinthians, 2nd. Selections.

Subjects:

Bible. Corinthians, 2nd -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. Corinthians, 2nd.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Fragments (object portions)
Commentaries.
Glosses (annotations)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Six conjugate folios from Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians (Nam gloria nostra ... nos credimus, 2 Corinthians 1.12-4.13), with glosses from Peter Lombard's Collectanea, also referred to as the Magna glossatura.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 1⁶; 103-108, modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 55 lines of gloss (main text, where present, written in a larger script on alternate lines spanning half a column), with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script, in a larger size for main text and a smaller size for the gloss.
Decoration: Running title S[e]c[un]da ad Co[rinthios] in red and blue; numerous 1- to 4-line initials alternating in red and blue ink with contrasting penwork flourishes that extend into the left margins; lemmas in gloss underlined in red.
Binding: Modern half calf with marbled paper (Benson's Hand Bindery, Columbia, S.C.).
Origin: Written in northern France, probably Paris, ca. 1210 (King Alfred's Notebook).
Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no 95; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; Bloomsbury, 6 July 2017, lot 10; 2 July 2019, lot 13 and 6 July 2021, lot 41; Christie's, 14 December 2022, lot 4. A bifolium with two large gold initial 'P's is in the Scheetz collection (S. Gwara, Bibliotheca Scheetziana, 2014, no 17, pp. 109-18.

Penn Provenance:

Parent manuscript has been described as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf (Christie's).
Parent manuscript offered for sale at auction at Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus F. Zisska & R. Kistner (Munich), 3 May 1988, lot 1 (Christie's).
Parent manuscript formerly held in the Schøyen Collection, MS 124 (Christie's).
Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 82, to Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Markkleeberg, Germany); manuscript disbound and gathering sold by Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Scott Gwara).
Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), 2011.

Cited as:

Gathering from Glossed Second Corinthians (Ms. Codex 1603). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Sankt Johannes Baptist (Rebdorf, Germany), former owner.
Schøyen Collection, former owner.

Related Work:

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160. Collectanea in omnes D. Pauli apostoli Epistolas.

OCLC:

748286969

Web link:

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