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Hugolinus de Urbe Veteri, Commentarium in quattuor libros Sententiarum

Liber III

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1038

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Hugolinus de Urbe Veteri, <i>Commentarium in quattuor libros Sententiarum</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1038
Page/Folio Reference upper pastedown
Material Parchment
Date of Origin first quarter 15th century
Script, Hands

Main text in small gothica cursiva libraria, headings in a larger northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height 136 mm
Page Width 186 mm
Height of Written Area 114 mm
Width of Written Area 155 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 70 – 75 mm
Number of Lines at least 26
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling No longer visible.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (trimmed, in situ)
Dimensions 136 x 186 mm
More about the Current Condition

Front flyleaf v contains several provenance marks in a later hand. One is by Eva van Venen (refer to 'History'); another is a Dutch quote about the love of Christ ('Jhesus min brinct blyscap in daer sy es vast / Der menschen min brinct droefheyt in Hoe naeuwe dat myts past')

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

No decoration. On front flyleaf r, col. A, a space was left open for an initial but this was never excised.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Hugolinus de Urbe Veteri
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title <i>Commentarium in quattuor libros Sententiarum</i>
    • Content Description

      Page starts with incipit of Liber III: '[P]ia namque fides veraciter ac salubriter profitetur, Christum generatione incommutabili...'
    • upper pastedown r
    • Secondary Literature Zumkeller, Adolar, ‘Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens in mitteleuropäischen Bibliotheken (Fortsetzung)’, Augustiniana: Revue pour l’étude de Saint Augustin et de l’Ordre des Augustins, 12 (1962), 47-48
    • Remarks

      Zumkeller 1962 contains incipits and explicits of all books of De Urbe Veteri's Commentary on the Four Books of Sentences.

History

Provenance

In the sixteenth century, the host volume was owned by Eva van Venen, a beguine who lived at the Great Beguinage at Leuven, according to an ex-libris on the upper pastedown ('Desen boeck hoort tou Eua van Venen woonende te loeuen int groot beghijnhof').

Host Volume

Title Jordanus of Quedlinburg, Sermons (Middle Dutch translation); Religious treatises and devotional texts, all in Dutch
Date of Origin/Publication first half 16th century
Place of Origin/Publication Southern Low Countries
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1038
Page/Folio Reference: fol. 1-191
Persons Jordanus of Quedlinburg (author of host volume); Johannes Tauler (author of host volume)
Conditions of Deposit Original binding.
Remarks

Volume contains another fragment as its lower pastedown, which is a papal document adressed to a canon of the diocese of Thérouanne (Northern France) from the first half of the 16th century.

Bibliography

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 203-204.
  • Zumkeller, Adolar, ‘Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens in mitteleuropäischen Bibliotheken (Fortsetzung)’, Augustiniana: Revue pour l’étude de Saint Augustin et de l’Ordre des Augustins, 12 (1962), 48.
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