Summary:
Manuscript 170 is a collection of works by Richard of Saint-Victor
(d. 1173), an important pre-Thomistic theologian: (ff. 1r-30v) De
contemplatione sive Beniamin maior; (ff. 30v-32v) De Trinitate;
(ff. 64r-69r) De potestate ligandi et solvendi; (ff. 69r-70v) De
spiritu blasphemiae; (ff. 69v-73r) De iudiciaria potestate; (ff.
73r-74v and 75v-76v) two fragments of the Declarationes nonnullarum
difficultatum scripturae; and (ff. 75r-v) Quomodo Spiritus Sanctus
est amor patris et filii. Roughly half of the leaves (ff. 33r-64r)
contain sermons by the late eleventh-century Benedictine William of
Merula. The manuscript is written in the fourteenth century. The
text is written in two columns, with initials alternately in red
and blue ink, with decorative penwork in the other colour. Larger
and more elaborate initials are found at the beginning of each
text, and rubrics are available in red ink. Not all leaves are
present, between ff. 32 and 33 several leaves have been missing at
least since the seventeenth century, containing the end of De
Trinitate and the beginning of the sermons. An interesting
provenance is connected to this manuscript. According to an
inscription on the last verso leaf, the book had been in the
possession of the abbey of Clairvaux before it found its way to Ter
Doest. The manuscript is thus a witness to the monastic networks
found throughout medieval Europe, and to the dissemination of
knowledge through these links. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer] Title:
Diuersa opuscula Ricardi de Sancto Uictore [titel fenestra] Note:
Convoluut: ff. 1r-32v; ff. 33r-76v
Tussen ff. 32-33 ontbreekt een deel van het handschrift, waardoor
het einde van De Trinitate en het begin van de preken ontbreekt.
Deze lacune was er al op het moment dat Carolus De Visch de
inhoudstafel van het handschrift opstelde (verso voorste
schutblad)
Verso achterste schutblad: 'Est liber hic sancti bernardi
clareuallensis'; dit verwijst naar het Collège des Bernardins of
naar de Abdij van Clairvaux Topic general subdivision:
Godsdienst Material:
Perkament Extent:
i + 76 ff. + ii Dimensions:
33 x 24 cm Decoration and binding:
lombarden
gedecoreerde initialen
Middeleeuwse band Script:
gotische textualis Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Cisterciënzerabdij Clairvaux (S.O. Cist.)
Abdij Notre-Dame de Clairvaux (S.O. Cist.) (?)
Collège des Bernardins (Paris, 1244-1789) (?)
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.)
