COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exws_ms163_3cover
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 163
Title:
Expositio in regulam S. Benedicti, cover
Alternative Title:
Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict, cover
Alternative Title:
MS 163, cover
Author:
Bernardus, Abbot of Monte Cassino, -1282
Origin Date:
between 1450 and 1499
Origin Location:
France
Description:
Upper cover of a codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (died 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino. The Rule of St. Benedict, written in the sixth century, was the foundational document for the life in Benedictine monasteries throughout the Middle Ages. Commentaries on the Rule, like this commentary by Bernard Ayglerius, were also read in the chapter, and were an important part of the education of monastic novices. Raised band spine. Binding made from two pieces of leather, sewn together horizontally. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, "Manuscript, 13ème siècle." Remains of a leather tie on the front cover. Multiple holes from wear and worms.
Provenance:
From dealer description: Written in the later decades of the 15th century, probably approximately 1480-1500, in central or southwestern France, as indicated by the style of the script and the watermark. Popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, the text is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. Medieval shelf-mark, bottom margin, ff. 1 and 83, "B 63," in both cases preceded by four erased words, "C de C." Armorial bookplate, front flyleaf for the Bibliothèque de Monseir le Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour," with motto, "Fortior in adversis." The Baron Amédée Caix de Saint Aymour was the mayor of Corbie (1863-1920), educated at the l'Ecoles des chartes and at the l'Ecoles des langues orientales. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, "Manuscript, 13ème siècle." Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 432).
Extent:
1 item
Subject:
Benedictines--Rules
Subject:
Monasticism and religious orders--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin--France
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Language:
lat
Dimensions:
150 x 100 mm
Material:
parchment
Material:
paper
Foliation:
ff. ii + 85 + ii
Binding:
Bound in two pieces of brown leather, sewn together horizontally, which is stitched over paste-boards formed from ten leaves from other manuscripts (now partially visible at the top, front, and along the fore edge, back). The leather turn-ins are covered with a paper leaf, now fragmentary, in the front, and by leather in the back. Part of this leather is broken off, and is now laid in, sewn on three leather bands, stitched through the inside of the covers in a "v" pattern. Lighter brown leather (sheepskin?) spine, probably later, with three raised bands with the title in gilt between the first and second in a gold square, "Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic]." Remains of leather tie, front cover, with a hole in the back cover, presumably from another tie, now missing, and showing considerable wear, including a second small hole in the back cover near the spine, and with corners and some edges of the leather covers worn away. Middle of each gathering reinforced with parchment strips from another manuscript.
Decoration Description:
1 column of 27-30 lines in blind ruling with full length bounding lines (justification: 110-107 x 80-75 mm).
Description of Hands:
Written in a cursive gothic bookhand.
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 163, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2019
Type:
Text
Format:
image/tiff
Format-Extent:
38,439,596 bytes
Is Referenced By:
Walter, P. Hilarius. "Das Speculum Monachorum des Abtes Bernhard I. von Cassino," Studien und Mittheilungen aus dem Benedictiner- und der Cistercienser-Orden 21 (1900), pp. 411-423 and 22 (1901), pp. 32-48.
Is Referenced By:
Clark, James G. "Monastic Education in Late Medieval England," in The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society; Essays in Honour of R.B. Dobson; Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium, edited by Caroline M. Barron and Jenny Stratford. Donington, Lincolnshire, Shaun Tyas, 2002, pp. 25- 40.
Is Referenced By:
Lowe, Elias Avery. The Beneventan Script; a History of the South Italian Minuscule, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1914.
Is Referenced By:
Leccisotti, T. "Aiglerio," in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 1, Rome, 1960, p. 521.
Is Referenced By:
Briquet, Charles-Moïse. Les filigranes. Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, 2. éd., New York, Hacker Art Books, 1966.
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
Expositio in regulam S. Benedicti, cover
