Eric J. Johnson
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Professor & Head of Thompson Special Collections, Ohio State University / Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts / Medieval MSS nerd / Fragmentology / walking / puro RGV, y que
The MS was rebound for Lagerfelt by the Gothenburg bookbinder Otto Schoultz. At some point, red tabs were added to the foredge of many pages to mark textual divisions throughout the codex. So much more work to be done on this lively--and significant--manuscript! 6/6
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The MS was rebound for Lagerfelt by the Gothenburg bookbinder Otto Schoultz. At some point, red tabs were added to the foredge of many pages to mark textual divisions throughout the codex. So much more work to be done on this lively--and significant--manuscript! 6/6
The manuscript has a long & distinguished provenance, with medieval ownership by the Carthusian monastery of St. Barbara in Cologne; the 18th-century rare book dealer Johann Matthias Heberle; Leander van Ess; Sir Thomas Phillipps (his MS 661); dealer Paul Gottschalk; & Adolf Lagerfelt. 5/6
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The manuscript has a long & distinguished provenance, with medieval ownership by the Carthusian monastery of St. Barbara in Cologne; the 18th-century rare book dealer Johann Matthias Heberle; Leander van Ess; Sir Thomas Phillipps (his MS 661); dealer Paul Gottschalk; & Adolf Lagerfelt. 5/6
Odd additions such as a short list of the Electors of Germany, occasional lines in Middle Low German, the Epistola Luciferi (attr. here to Nicole Oresme, but prob. by Pierre Ceffons), & von Langenstein's letter to Eberhard von Yppelbrunn, the Deacon of Mainz. 4/6
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Odd additions such as a short list of the Electors of Germany, occasional lines in Middle Low German, the Epistola Luciferi (attr. here to Nicole Oresme, but prob. by Pierre Ceffons), & von Langenstein's letter to Eberhard von Yppelbrunn, the Deacon of Mainz. 4/6
Confessional treatises by Johannes Nider & Heinrich von Langenstein, excerpts from the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Augustine, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Thomas Aquinas... 3/6
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Confessional treatises by Johannes Nider & Heinrich von Langenstein, excerpts from the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Augustine, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Thomas Aquinas... 3/6
A confessional manual focusing on the deadly sins, with schematic trees and diagrams outlining each sin and it's offshoots and remedies 2/6
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A confessional manual focusing on the deadly sins, with schematic trees and diagrams outlining each sin and it's offshoots and remedies 2/6
Here's the Schoenberg record: sdbm.library.upenn.edu/entries/185602
SDBM_185602 - Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
sdbm.library.upenn.edu
February 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Here's the Schoenberg record: sdbm.library.upenn.edu/entries/185602
And here's another folio from the MS, now in the Western Medieval Manuscripts Collection at Keio University in Japan: dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/western-m...
Quatuor Libri Sententiarum, Book II | 慶應義塾大学メディアセンター デジタルコレクションDigital Collections of Keio University Libraries
dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp
February 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
And here's another folio from the MS, now in the Western Medieval Manuscripts Collection at Keio University in Japan: dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/western-m...
Another folio, with text from Bk. I, Dist. 36-37, is now at Winthrop University: digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/medievalmanu...
Sentences- Med MS 7A
Peter Lombard, Sentences. Single folio on vellum. England, ca. 1275: 328 x 218 mm, written area 200 x 125 mm. Double column, 50 lines. Decoration: four multi-line initials in alternating red and blue ...
digitalcommons.winthrop.edu
February 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Another folio, with text from Bk. I, Dist. 36-37, is now at Winthrop University: digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/medievalmanu...
The MS was ultimately broken and dispersed after being sold at Sotheby's, 24 June 1980, lot 59; but at least some folios were loose by 1910 when John Frederick Lewis acquired two of them, now at Philadelphia's Free Library: libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item...
Digital Collections: [Peter Lombard, Sentences, Liber II, with later marginal glosses]
[Peter Lombard, Sentences, Liber II, with later marginal glosses]
libwww.freelibrary.org
February 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The MS was ultimately broken and dispersed after being sold at Sotheby's, 24 June 1980, lot 59; but at least some folios were loose by 1910 when John Frederick Lewis acquired two of them, now at Philadelphia's Free Library: libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item...
I love "new" acquisitions that don't cost us anything!
February 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I love "new" acquisitions that don't cost us anything!
Nice! I think a (formal) reconstruction effort is needed for this vol. Calling all student-fragmentologists!
February 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Nice! I think a (formal) reconstruction effort is needed for this vol. Calling all student-fragmentologists!
A sister volume to the codex Ege broke is now in Baltimore at the Walters Art Museum, MS W.805. You can see its description and select images of illuminated folios here: www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters... #IlluminatedManuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #BibleMSS
Walters Ms. W.805, Bible (part)
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February 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A sister volume to the codex Ege broke is now in Baltimore at the Walters Art Museum, MS W.805. You can see its description and select images of illuminated folios here: www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters... #IlluminatedManuscripts #MedievalManuscripts #BibleMSS