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Summa vitiorum, etc
Title
Summa vitiorum, etc.
Created
Belgium, [ca. 1300]
Physical Description
ff. ii + 116 + ii : parchment ; 183 x 127 (45 x 102) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written by several scribes in cramped gothic bookhands. Marginal annotations in contemporary and later hands; some loss due to trimming.
Decorative initial, 3-line, at beginning of art. 4, red and blue with red flourishing, and border design that extends horizontally across top of accompanying table (art. 3). Crude initials, 4- to 2-line, red or blue, often with simple penwork designs of opposite color. Some running titles (others trimmed), headings, initial strokes, in red. Paragraph marks in blue or red.
Parchment is worn and rubbed throughout, often affecting legibility of text.
Binding: Between 1700 and 1750. Tan calf with arms of the Abbey of Parc stamped in gold on upper and lower covers; arms effaced in 1829 when library of the abbey was sold. Red label with "Summa Virtutum et Vitiorum M. S." in gold, on spine, possibly added by C. Lewis. Red spattered edges.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Presented to the Beinecke Library in 1968 by Thomas E. Marston.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Extracts on fides and other virtues from various authors: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Augustine, Cicero, Gregory, Innocent, Jerome, Bernard, Anselm. 2) List of tituli for art. 3. 3) A table with 40 compartments recording: Septem vicia, Septem peticiones, .vii. dona spiritus, Septem virtutes, Septem beatitudines. 4) Guillaume Perault, Summa vitiorum. 5) Series of short selections, some crossed out, including rules for clerics.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 374.
Guillaume Perault, Summa Vitiorum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Guillaume Perault, Summa Vitiorum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Commonplace books - Belgium - 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Belgium - 14th century.
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