Bonaventure — 1405; French, Paris/Soissons

Title

Bonaventure — 1405; French, Paris/Soissons

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. f. 23

Place of origin

French, Paris/Soissons

Date

1405

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (paper) + 110 + ii (paper)

Hands

Cursive script

Binding

Sewn on five cords, and bound in (?)late-19th-century (?)French plain parchment over stiff pasteboards, the covers tooled with simple panels in gilt; the spine with gilt foliate ornament and a brown leather title piece lettered in gilt 'BONAVENTURA | MS. 1405.'; marbled endpapers; the edges of the leaves gilt; a rust-stain at the upper edge of fol. 1 may have been caused by a chain attachment.

Provenance

Signed, dated, colophon: 'Explicit breuiloquium de fide catholica. editum a bonauentura cordigero. exellenti doctore: scriptum a fratre andrea de vaylico suessionum diocesis. anno domini MCCCCV. finitum mense ianuario. pro fratre henrico pistoris plebano et bachalario in sacra pagina: canonico ecclesie sanctissimi victoris martiris parisiensis:', followed by a distinctive notarial(?) mark, also used with each catchword; the scribe also wrote BnF, ms. lat. 14537, in 1394–5; Henri Pistor was prior of St.-Victor in the early 15th century; 'K.8' (fol. iiir) is the pressmark of St.-Victor; the table of contents (fol. iiiv) is in the hand of Claude de Grandrue (cf. L. Delisle, Cabinet des manuscrits, II: 228–31); 'E.g.14' (fol. 2r) is another St.-Victor shelfmark, assigned by Le Tonnellier, c.1675

Charles W. Reynell, by descent to his great-nephew, C. H. Reynell, of Memphis, Tenessee, his sale at Sotheby's 26 July 1937 lot 153

Bought by Maggs for 50 shillings, with their acquisition note and price-code on fol. 112r: 'S[otheby's]/7/7 [sic]', and 'aoso'; Maggs, cat. 713 (1942) no. 391; Maggs, cat. 713 (1942) no. 391

Given by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. f. 29.