Julian of Toledo, Innocent III, Hildebert of Le Mans, Ps.-Bernard — 13th century, third quarter; French, North

Title

Julian of Toledo, Innocent III, Hildebert of Le Mans, Ps.-Bernard — 13th century, third quarter; French, North

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. e. 40

Place of origin

French, North

Date

13th century, third quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 138 leaves

Hands

Written by ' Gichars '

Decoration

Good historiated initials. Seven historiated initals, in blue, white, carmine and burnished gold: (fol. 22r) A bishop with book addressing a clerk. (fol. 37r) St. Augustine with a book. (fol. 103r) St. Francis preaching to friars. (fol. 126v) Christ seated with an orb, blessing. (fol. 130v) Ps. 109: Last Judgment. (fol. 132r) Virgin and Child. (fol. 133r) The Decollation of St. John the Baptist, badly flaked.

Directions to the illuminator survive as follows: 'diaconus' (fol. 22r); 'Augut[inus]' (fol. 37r); 'Joh[an]es' (fol. 133r).

Other initials in red with blue flourishing or vice versa.

Binding

19th cent. calf binding with the arms of the Signet library

Provenance

Colophon in French by the scribe Gichars: 'De dame deu de gloire qui en la croiz fu mis / Soit sire Gichars benoit [corrected to benoiz] et a bone fin pris / Amen amen chascuns en die / Que dex otroit a sarme vie / Totes les foiz que il regardera en cest livre / De toz maus soit il delivre' (fol. 101v)

Inscribed 'Iste [liber] est ... [remainder thoroughly erased]' (fol. iii verso).

Presented to the Society of Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh(arms on binding), by J. Macfarquhar , 1814

Sotheby's 1 Nov. 1960, lot 2411; bought from Quaritch, 1961.