Summary:
Manuscript 74 is a composite manuscript, combining five texts of
various natures: (ff. 1r-74r) Nicolaus de Tornaco super Lucam; (ff.
74r-79v) De beata virgine; (f. 79v) note on plainchant; (ff.
81r-86r) Expositio super orationem dominicam; and (ff. 86v-95v)
Expositio super symbolum Constantinopolitanum, recension prima. The
first text is attributed by the scribe to the thirteenth-century
French Dominican Nicholas of Gorran (Nicolaus de Tornaco) and is a
commentary on the Gospel according to Luke. As the authorship of
Nicholas for other Bible commentaries is now dubious (cf. mss. 28
and 29), the attribution of this text is also uncertain. The second
text is a sermon on the Virgin Mary. The name of the text is not
set, the most extensive name found in literature is Comparatio
Mariae cum rebus naturalibus et artificialibus (Comparison of Mary
with natural and manmade objects). The author is unknown, though it
is grouped with sermons by the Dominican William Perault (d. 1271)
in a manuscript kept at the Mainz Municipal Library. The third text
is a part of the Ars lectoria by the late eleventh-century
Aimericus of Angoulême. The copy is corrupt, giving variant
readings and omitting words and phrases. At the end of the leaf,
the text abruptly stops. A blank leaf, showing only the pencil
lines of the layout, introduces the fourth text. This is an
tractate on the Sunday lecture, the author of which is unknown (the
fenestra title of this manuscript reads Tractatus cuiusdam;
'Someone's tractate'). The last text is a commentary by Simon of
Tournai (d. 1201) on the Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed, the
statement on several fundamental doctrines of Early Christianity.
The manuscript dates to the late thirteenth and fourteenth century,
and was possibly written in Flanders. The text is laid out in two
columns, for which the pencil lines are still visible. The large
initial of the first text is executed in red and blue; the smaller
ones at the beginning of the second and third texts are blue with
red penwork. The fourth text has a large initial in red and green,
while the fifth has a smaller in red and green. While the
manuscript is written as a single entity, in a uniform layout and
with contemporary rubrication and marginal notes added in red ink,
it can be divided in two units, each of which contains multiple
texts continuously one after the other, without any additional
boundary markers other than the smaller initials. The first three
texts form one unit; their initials have been decorated using blue
ink. After the abrupt truncation of the third text, and separated
by the blank leaf, the last two texts form the other unit. Their
initials contain green ink. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer] Title:
Nicholaus super Lucam. Tractatus cuiusdam super orationem
dominicam. Et magister Symon Tornaceum super Simbolum [titel
fenestra] Note:
Folio 80 is gelinieerd maar blanco
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:
95 ff. + i Dimensions:
330 x 230 mm Decoration and binding:
gedecoreerde initialen
Middeleeuwse band Script:
gotische textualis Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.)
