Boethius with commentaries; Peter Abelard

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Title

Boethius with commentaries; Peter Abelard

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 49

Place of origin

Austrian or German

Date

12th century, second half

Language

Latin

MS. Lyell 49, Part A, fols. 1–57

Boethius, Opuscula Sacra, with a commentary on I, II, III, and V written in the form of interlinear and marginal glosses.

Boethius Opuscula sacra

Remigius of Auxerre (attrib.) Commentary on Boethius, Opuscula Sacra

MS. Lyell 49, part B, fols. 58–80

Remigius of Auxerre (attrib.) Commentary on Boethius, Opuscula sacra

(fol. 59r) Incipit: Investigatam diutissime questionem. Sub(audis). De sancta trinitate

(fol. 67r) Rubric: Incipit eiusdem Boetii liber ad Iohannem diaconum

(fol. 68r) Incipit: Postulas ut ex ebdomadibus. id est conceptionibus

(fol. 70v) Rubric: Eiusdem ad eundem contra Eutichen et Nestorium

Fol. 80 Originally left blank. On fol. 80v is a pen drawing (see below). Below it is the contemporary note: ‘Hic claustri sancti Blasii liber est Ademunti\Ademonti/’.

(Fol. 58) A reject leaf for the beginning of the Commentary. It had several lines of text, a red incipit, and an initial, which have been erased.

MS. Lyell 49, part C, fols. 81–100

1. (fols. 81r–99v) Thierry of Chartres (attrib.) Commentary on Boethius, Opuscula sacra

2. (fol. 99v) Thierry of Chartres (attrib.) Commentary on Boethius, De hebdomadibus

MS. Lyell 49, part D, fols. 101–28

1. (fol. 101r) Peter Abelard Theologia summi boni

Rubric: Librorum de Trinitate capitula

Rubric: Incipit liber I

In the blank space on fol. 128v a later (14th-cent.?) hand added two notes on the Trinity, ‘Nota. Cum pater sit deus, filius deus, spiritus sanctus sit deus et pater sit alius quam filius.’

The end flyleaf (fol. 129r) contains a fragment on the Immaculate Conception in a hand similar to fol. 128v. The front flyleaf (fol. i), bound upside down, has a note (12th cent.) ‘Exponat nobis lector quid sit ydioma Boetii’ and below it another note in the hand of fol. 128v.

There are drawings with a point on the front flyleaf (fol. 1v), archway, and fol. 80, soldier with shield in left hand and sword resting on right shoulder and there is a pen drawing on fol. 80v of a figure in a short tunic, but booted and spurred, offering a flower to a veiled woman with hands raised in front of her it has been queried whether the spurs are original. (Haloes have been added later, drawn with a hard point.) For the style of the drawing on fol. 80v cf. a figure from MS. Admont 36, written at Admont c. 1180, in Buberl, op. cit., p. 64 fig. 69. Pächt-Alexander 1, no. 92, pl. viii (fol. 80v).

Form

codex

Support

Four MSS. written in the late 12th cent, in Austria or Germany, bound together

Physical extent

i+129 leaves (fol. i and 129 are the original flyleaves).

Binding

Early 14th-cent. binding of thick wooden boards with sharp bevelled edges covered with rough white leather, fastened by single clasp (now missing, but the catch survives), on leather strap; parchment label on upper cover: Boecius Glosatus de S. Trinitate.

Acquisition

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Provenance

From the library of the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria; see note on fol. 80v. Listed in the catalogue of c. 1376, pr. G. Möser-Mersky, Mittelalt. Bibl. kat. Österreichs iii (1961), p. 30 l. 25–6: Boecius glosatus de sancta Trinitate incipit Investigatam: in eodem Conmentum super Boecium et Magister Helyas super Boecium, and similarly in the 1380 catalogue (loc. cit., p. 56, 1. 6–7). Later no. 382 in the library: number on spine.

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948: Bought by Lyell in November 1936 from E. P. Goldschmidt and Co.; see his Cat. 47, no. 3.

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