Summary:
Manuscript 400 contains part one of two of the Historia scholastica
by Petrus Comestor (c. 1100 - 1179). The Historia scholastica is a
literary exegesis of the Bible. The manuscript was made c. 1200, it
was part of Ter Doest Abbey. Manuscript 400 contains exegesis on
the bible books from Genesis to Kings. The document has some
illumination. Each bible verse alternately starts with red initials
with blue filigree or blue initials with red filigree. Large
multi-coloured decorated initials indicate the start of each bible
book. The initials are decorated with leaves, foliage and geometric
motives. The document is written in a proto-gothic script. The
manuscript is bound in a seventeenth-century binding of the
'Campmans' type. [Summary by Sarah Vanroye] Title:
Prima pars Scolastice historie [titel fenestra] Note:
Bevat: inhoudstafel (ff. 1r-2v), Historia scholastica van Genesis
t.e.m. 4 Regum (ff. 3v-167v)
Ff. 1r-2v: inhoudstafel
F. 3r blanco
Inc. brief. f. 3v: 'Epistola magistri Petri Comestoris ad dominum
Guillelmum Senonensem postea Remensem archiepiscopum de sequenti
opere. Reuerendo patri et domino Guillelmo Dei gratia Senonensi
archiepiscopo'; inc. prol. (f. 3v-4r): 'In hoc libro continentur
ista Scolastica hystoria super quinque libros Moysi quorum nomina
sunt hec: Genesis, Exodus, Leuiticus, Numerus uel Numeripluraliter,
Deuteronomius, Iosue, Iudicum, Ruth, quatuor libri Regum. Incipit
prefatio sequentis operis. [f. 4r] Imperatorie maiestatis est in
palatio tres habere mansiones'; inc. (f. 4r): 'Incipit Hystoria
scolastica de creatione empirei celi et IIIIor elementorum. In
principio erat uerbum et uerbum erat principium in quo et per quod
Pater creauit mundum'; expl. (f. 170v): 'uel quia regna quandoque
sine rege fuerunt. Explicit liber Regum quartus'
Herkomst: Volgens Lieftinck 1953 is dit handschrift afkomstig uit
het scriptorium van Sint-Donatiaan te Brugge Topic general subdivision:
Godsdienst Material:
Perkament Extent:
170 ff. Dimensions:
420 x 310 mm Decoration and binding:
Vol. I (Cfr. Vol. II: Ms. 401)
lombarden
gedecoreerde initialen
gehistorieerde initialen
Campmansband (ca. 1625-1650) Script:
gotische textualis Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.) Genre/form:
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