Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John

Description

Title: Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John
Creator: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on sheepskin parchment of Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225-1274), Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John, edited by Reginald de Piperno, O.P.; with excerpts (art. 2) from Nicolaus de Gorran, O.P. (d. c. 1295), Postillae in epistolam ad Romanos, chs. 1-9.
Description: In Latin.
Script: The main text (art. 1) is copied in a small Northern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; and art. 2 is in a small Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria (Anglicana).
Decoration: There are alternating red and blue paragraph marks; running headlines associated with chapter numbers; alternating red and blue 2-line flourished initials, half inserted, with penwork in the contrasting colour (N.B. penwork missing on f. 74va); and on f. 1r, a 6-line littera duplex in red and blue, with delicate penwork in the two colours and a J-stave over the full height of the left margin. Art. 2 is undecorated.
Provenance: Formerly of the collection of James Stevens Cox (1910-1997). Ex libris Albert H. Childs, Yale '61, Memorial Collection at Yale University Library.
Extent: ff. iii + 76 + iii : 360 x 225 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: Preliminary leaves (modern binder's blanks) not digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholasticism
Subjects: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Bible > Commentaries
Bible. N.T. John
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholasticism
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Albert H. Childs, Yale '61, Memorial Collection > bookplate

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Citation: Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.