Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 29

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  • Latin MS 29
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Postilla litteralis in uetus et nouum testamentum (Prologue-Psalter)
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Description
  • Extent:
    ff. 299 (ii+295+ii) Leaf height: 425 mm, width: 279 mm.
    Binding:

    Modern binding.


    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:

    Two columns, 68 lines to a page


    Collation:

    Quires 1-1310
    Quire 148
    Quire 158, 2 a late insertion
    Quires 16-3010, 10 cancelled


    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):
    Bible--Commentaries
    Abstract:

    Nicholas of Lyra, Postilla litteralis in uetus et nouum testamentum, part 1 of 3. Originally one volume, parts 2 and 3 are now John Rylands Latin MS 30 and 31 respectively. 14th century (finished in 1402). Written by Ugolino Marini Gilbertuzzi of Sarnano, by order of Pandolfo de Malatesta, and finished in the Franciscan convent at Pesaro in April 1402.


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment.
    Provenance:

    Ubaldo Meroni in the catalogue of the Mostra dei Codici Gonzagheschi (held in the Biblioteca Comunale, Mantua, 18th Sept.-10th Oct. 1966), pp. 37 and n. 93, 51, 52(1), suggests that these codices probably came into the possession of the The Gonzaga family (fl. 1328-1708) in 1441 through Paola Malatesta (b. 1393, d. 1449), Italian noblewoman by inheritance from her brother Pandolfo, Bishop of Patras (d. 1441)

    Bought by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford from Thomas and William Boone (fl. 1817-1872), booksellers of 29, New Bond Street, London, on 23 February 1866 for £200 for the three volumes (CLR, 1863-70, nos. 1200, 1216)


    Note(s):
    Folio 1r-v blank.
    Excerpts:
    Colophon: Folio 295vColophon ends: Mando lectori. Ut det scriptori christum roget ore fideli. post mortem gaudia celi. Scriptor qui scripsit cum christo uiuere possit.
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