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The commentary on the Book of Genesis

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Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps 65/V

Marta Czyżak, Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, 2020 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title The commentary on the Book of Genesis
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Teutonic Prussia, Sambia?
Date of Origin 1375-1400

Original Condition

Page Height at least 485 mm
Page Width 250 – 255 mm
Height of Written Area at least 370 mm
Width of Written Area 200 – 210 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 100 – 104 mm
Number of Lines 66 – 67
Line Height at least 6 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions Front pastedown: 485 x 250; back pastedown: 485 x 250 – 255 mm

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Commentary on the Book of Gensis
    • Content Description

      [front pastedown] ║Similis sibi hebraice faciamus ei adiutorium contra eum / et postea [...] adiutor contra eum / in generacione enim requiritur virtus activa et passive corus [?] active quasi contra eam divisa. In generacione enim hominis virtus activa est in viro, passiva vero in muliere. Ideo dicitur adiutorium et adiutor contra virum sicut proprium passivum corudens activo… >< …ex dictis patet cum dicitur in translatione nostra ostium autem [...] pones[?] in latere est║

      [back pastedown] ║[the first four lines are erased] de conceptu presenti quia sicut dicunt passa fuit aborsum sed iterum concepit ad vocem angeli… >< …ibi enim ille locus reputabatur sanctus propter oblationem Ysaac ibi factam, ideo voluit ibi Iacob pernoctare et orare pro direccione vie║
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History

Origin

The manuscript with the commentary on the Book of Genesis could have been written in the bishop's scriptorium in the castle in Fischhausen near Königsberg or in the scriptorium of the cathedral chapter in Königsberg in the 4th quarter of the 14th century.
Provenance

The manuscript probably belonged to the cathedral library in Królewiec, here its pages were used as the pastedowns of the codex with the work of Henricus Bohic (1st quarter of the 15th century).

After the secularization of Teutonic Prussia (1525) the codex (= the host volume) was taken over with the entire cathedral library by prince Albrecht Hohenzollern and placed in the castle library in Königsberg (before the mid-16th century).
In the years 1827-1944 the host volume belonged to the Royal (then State) and University Library in Königsberg. Then, as a result of the evacuation of the most valuable collections of the library and the change of state borders after the second world war, the evacuated books (among them the described codex) found themselves in the territory of the Polish state. In July 1946, by the decision of the Ministry of Education, they were transferred to the University Library in Toruń.
Persons and Institutions 1. Chapter (cathedral) library in Königsberg, 2. Prince Albrecht's Hohenzollern castle library in Königsberg, 3. Royal (since 1918: State) and University Library in Königsberg, 4. University Library in Toruń

Host Volume

Title Henricus Bohic, Distinctiones in Librum IV Decretalium Gregorii IX
Date of Origin/Publication 1st quarter of the 15th century
Place of Origin/Publication Fischhausen or Königsberg
Shelfmark Ms 65/V

Bibliography

  • Katalog rękopisów średniowiecznych Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Toruniu, ed. M. Czyżak in cooperation with Monika Jakubek-Raczkowska, Arkadiusz Wagner, Toruń 2016, p. 266-271, il.
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