Summary:
Manuscript 48 is a composite manuscript, containing two texts: (ff.
1r-88v) the second part of Gilbertus Pictaviensis in Psalterium;
and (ff. 89r-127v) the Chronicon Pontificum et imperatorum of
Martin of Opava (Martinus Oppaviensis). There is no apparent
relation between both texts. Rather, they show the diversity of
medieval literature. The text by Gilbert de la Porrée, a French
theologian and bishop of Poitiers (d. 1154), was written in Ten
Duinen abbey c. 1145-1155 and forms the second part of his
commentary on the Psalms, with ms. 47 containing the first part.
Several of the initials have been decorated. The second text, famed
for its innovative layout rather than for its contents, presents
parallel histories of the papacy and the German Empire. Though not
all contemporaries were charmed by this layout, the text here does
contain the parallel: the two columns on each verso page deal with
the popes (pontifices), while the two on each recto page deal with
the emperors (imperatores). This text, written in the fourteenth
century, has alternating red and blue initials. It is bound in a
seventeenth-century binding of the 'Campmans' type. [Summary by Dr.
Mark Vermeer] Title:
[Gilbertus Pictaviensis in Psalterium; Chronicon pontificum et
imperatorum] Note:
Convoluut Topic general subdivision:
Godsdienst Material:
Perkament Extent:
127 ff. Dimensions:
250 x 180 mm Decoration and binding:
(Cfr. Ms. 47)
Duinenfoliëring
lombarden
gedecoreerde initialen
randdecoratie
Campmansband (ca. 1625-1650) Script:
gotische textualis Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.)
