Summary:
The full title of the manuscript, as found at the top of the list
of contents, is "Liber sancte Marie de Thosan, in quo continentur
Epistole beati Jheronimi et beati Augustini". An 18th-century note
on the first leaf identifies the volume as "pars prima". This is
taken from the explicit (fol. 140v), which reads "Explicit prima
pars epistolarum". The manuscript indeed forms a set with
manuscript 149, bearing a close similarity with regard to content,
date and style. This volume contains forty letters, the majority of
which written by Saint Jerome to various persons. A little less
than half were written by others - mostly Saint Augustine - to
Jerome. The manuscript is produced in a typical Cistercian style:
the text is organized in two columns per page, with no decoration
other than initials in red and green ink. The initial of each
letter is executed more elaborately, written in either red or green
ink and filled with decorations in the other colour. The initial of
the first letter, on fol. 2r, diverges from this trend, as it has a
red-blue colour scheme. Throughout the text glosses, marginalia and
other additions are found, many in the text hand. Greek words have
their Latin transliteration written above (e.g. on fols. 47v-48v).
According to Lieftinck, this manuscript might have been produced in
the scriptoria of Ten Duinen or Ter Doest, roughly around the year
1200. In any case the book was intended from the outset to have
been in the possession of Ter Doest, as is evident from the title
and has been repeated in the anathema on the final leaf: "Liber
sancte Marie de Thosan, qui folium abstulerit vel curtaverit,
anathema sit. Amen." The volume was transferred to the library of
Ten Duinen following the incorporation of Ter Doest: the
cross-shaped stamp of Ten Duinen is found on the first and final
leaves. The manuscript is bound in a seventeenth-century binding of
the 'Campmans' type. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer] Title:
Epistulae beati Iheronimi et beati Augustini Note:
Pars prima. Bevat: inhoudstafel (f. 1v); Adversus Jovinianum (ff.
2r-41v); 45 brieven (ff. 41v-140v): Apologetica ad Pammachium, Ad
Pammachium, Ad Domnionem, Ad Heliodorum, Ad Nepotianum de uita
clericorum, Ad Rusticum monachum, Ad Eustochium de uirginitate
seruanda, Ad Paulam de morte Blesille, Ad Heliodorum, Ad Pammachium
de subita peregrinatione Pauline, Ad Oceanum de morte Fabiole,
Epistola Damasi ad Iheronymum de quinque questionibus in Genesi,
Rescriptum Iher. ad Dam., Ad Damasum in cantico canticorum post
Origenem translatus, Tranquillino quemadmodum Origenem legere
debeat, Ad Damasum de seraphim, Iher. ad Dam. de calculo et Osanna,
Dam. ad Iher. de Osanna, Rescriptum Iher. de Osanna, Iher. ad Dam.
de fide, Ad Damasum de hypostasibus, Augustinus ad Iheronymum
epistula prima, Aug. ad Iher. axpostulantis et excusantis, Iher. ad
Aug. familiaris, Iher. ad Aug. commendatio amici, Aug. ad
Praesidium, Aug. ad Iher. excusantis et calumniam propellentis,
Iher. ad Aug. familiaris, Aug. ad Iher. de translatione ex Hebraica
veritate, Aug. ad Iher. de mendacio, Iher. ad Aug. de expositione
cuiusdam loci epistulae ad Galatas, Iher. ad Aug. apologetica, Aug.
ad Iher. super capitulo ad Galatas etc., Ad Marcellinum et
Anapsychiam, Aug. ad Iher. de origine anime, Aug. ad Iher. de
sententia Iacobi apostoli, Iher. ad Aug. rescriptum, Iher. ad Aug.
contra Pelagianos, Iher. ad Aug. de hereticis, Iher. ad Alypium et
Augustinum, Pammachii et Oceani ad Iher., Iher. ad Pammachium et
Oceanum, Epiphanii Cypri missa ad Iohannem episcopum, Iher. ad
Pammachium de optimo genere interpretandi, Iher. ad Avitum, Iher.
ad Demetriadem (Cfr. Bernard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana
Manuscripta (Instrumenta patristica 4), Steenbrugge, 1969)
Explicit f. 140v: 'Explicit prima pars epistolarum beati Iheronimi
presbiteri'
Herkomst: Volgens Lieftinck 1953 is dit handschrift mogelijk
afkomstig uit het scriptorium van Ter Doest of Ten Duinen Topic general subdivision:
Godsdienst Material:
Perkament Extent:
140 ff. Dimensions:
370 x 290 mm Decoration and binding:
(Cfr. Ms. 149)
lombarden
gedecoreerde initialen
Campmansband (ca. 1625-1650) Script:
gotische textualis Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.) Genre/form:
Brief
