Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 49
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- Latin MS 49
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- Latin
- Title
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- Account of Cassian, taken from De Viris Illustribus
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- Gennade (04..-0496?)
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- Author
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- Gennadius, d. 496
- Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
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- Gennadius
- Gennadius Massiliensis
- GENNADIUS MASSILIENSIS
- Gennadius (04..-0496?)
- Gennade (04..-0496?)
- Gennadus Massiliensis
- Gennadii
- GENNADUS MASSILIENSIS.
- Gennade
- Gennadi de Marsella, s.V
- Gennadio de Marsella
- Gennadius, of Marseilles, 5th cent.
- Gennadius Massiliensis gest. 492 bzw. 505 n. Chr.
- Gennadius van Marseille
- Author: Gennadius, Massiliensis
- Gennadius, of Marseilles, active 5th century
- Gennadius of Marseilles, 5th century
- Gennadius<Massiliensis>
- Gennadius <von Marseille>
- Gennade de Marseille (04..-0496?)
- Gennadius Massiliensis, ?-ca 496 > , co-autor
- Gennadius Scholasticus - 5de eeuw - auteur
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- Jean Cassien (saint, 0360?-0432?)
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- Cassian, John, 360-435
- John Cassian (b. c. 360, d. c. 435), monk and theologian
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- CASSIEN
- CASSIANUS (Joannes)
- JOANNES Cassianus
- Jean Cassien
- CASSIANUS
- Joannes Cassianus (saint ; 0360?-0432?)
- JOHANNES CASSIANUS
- CASSIANUS (s. Johannes), Massiliensis
- Cassianus
- Jean Cassien (saint ; 0360?-0432?)
- Iohannes Cassianus
- CASSIANUS (s. Johannes)
- Jean Cassien (saint ; 0360?-0432?)
- S. Johannes Cassianus
- Jean Cassien (saint, 0360?-0432?)
- Joannes Cassianus
- Johannes Cassianus
- Jean Cassien saint 0360?-0432?
- Casiano, Juan ca. 360-435
- Cassià, Joan, 360-430/35
- Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
- Cassianus, Johannes
- Author: Cassianus, Johannes
- John Cassian
- Cassian
- John Cassian, c 360-c 432, Abbot of Saint-Victor
- Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435
- Cassianus, Johannes, 360/365-432/435
- Johannes Cassianus (Johannes)
- Jean Cassien (v. 360-435)
- Cassianus, Johannes (ca. 360-435)
- Juan Casiano, Santo, ca.360-ca.432
- Cassianus, Johannes, ca. 360/365-432/435
- Cassiano, João, ca 370-ca 435 > , co-autor
- Cassiano, João, ca 370-ca 435
- Johannes Cassianus - ca. 360 - 435 - auteur
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- Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899)
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- Former owner
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- Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher
- Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899
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- Quaritch, Bernard (1819-1899)
- Bernard Quaritch
- Bernard Quaritch, 1819-1899
- Bernard Quaritch 1819-1899
- Bernard Quaritch, Limited
- Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), bookseller and publisher
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
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- Former owner
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
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- Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
- Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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- Description
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- Extent:
ff. 290 (iii+283+iv) Leaf height: 279 mm, width: 208 mm.
Binding:
Blue morocco with gold tooling, by C. Smith.
18th century.
Decoration:
The principal ornaments are at the beginnings of the Collations.
Folio 1r: A border of conventional foliage. It contained three places for medallions or shields. These, left blank, have been filled in the 17th or 18th century with red and yellow paint, and the initials D R inserted in monogram. The initial forms the left side. It is of fine work mainly in burnished gold. In the upper part is a bearded cow led monk in black habit holding a red book and standing under an octagonal Gothic baldacchino mainly purple and green. Below is a youth with club and shield. The monk is Moyses.
Folio 21r: Coll. iii. Paphnutius, beardless, with book open, in initial.
Folio 72r: Coll. ix. Bust in initial (Isaac).
Folio 83r: Coll. x. Isaac, seated, writing.
Folio 91r: Coll. xi. Bust. Chaeremon: finely drawn.
The first page of part II (which originally had a separate foliation) has a border containing three medallions (as on folio 1r). These have been filled in with initials (I) A.D, (2) A.B.D, (3) DR in monogram.
In the initial to the Preface, folio 211v is a bust of a bearded monk, on gold ground.
In the partial border on folio 215v, an admirably drawn bird.
Smaller initials often in plain gold on a patch of colour which is very commonly green. Others, in red with blue pen-work.
Each Collation or Book has a partial border, the form of which is commonly a rod of colour breaking out into ornament.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.
Layout:
36 long lines.
Collation:
Quire a4
Quires 1-2810
Quire 293
Script:
In a Roman hand
Data Source(s):
Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Monastic life; Asceticism
Abstract:
Miscellaneous works about, and by, John Cassian, produced in Venice or Padua in the second quarter or middle of the 15th century.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment.
Provenance:
No. 226 in the Libri sale of 1859: bought then by Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher for £13 5s.
Bought by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford for £20 from Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher, who had purchased it for £13.5s. at the Libri Sale (Lot 226) of 29 March 1859 (CLL, 1859, nos. 103, 105; CLR, 1856-62, no. 953; CLl, 1851-60, no. 236).
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