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Title
Prima pars Scolastice historie [titel fenestra]
Physical location
Bruges Public Library
Call number
Ms. 400
Associated names
Petrus Comestor - ca. 1100 - 1179 (VIAF: 40175167) - auteur
Language
Latin
Date of creation
12de-13de eeuw; ca. 1200 (1185)
Origin place
[Vlaanderen]
Origin place
[Brugge?]
Summary
Manuscript 400 contains part one of two of the Historia scholastica by Petrus Comestor (c. 1100 - 1179). The Historia scholastica is a literary exegesis of the Bible. The manuscript was made c. 1200, it was part of Ter Doest Abbey. Manuscript 400 contains exegesis on the bible books from Genesis to Kings. The document has some illumination. Each bible verse alternately starts with red initials with blue filigree or blue initials with red filigree. Large multi-coloured decorated initials indicate the start of each bible book. The initials are decorated with leaves, foliage and geometric motives. The document is written in a proto-gothic script. The manuscript is bound in a seventeenth-century binding of the 'Campmans' type. [Summary by Sarah Vanroye]
Uniform title
Historia scholastica
Note
Bevat: inhoudstafel (ff. 1r-2v), Historia scholastica van Genesis t.e.m. 4 Regum (ff. 3v-167v)
Note
Ff. 1r-2v: inhoudstafel
Note
F. 3r blanco
Note
Inc. brief. f. 3v: 'Epistola magistri Petri Comestoris ad dominum Guillelmum Senonensem postea Remensem archiepiscopum de sequenti opere. Reuerendo patri et domino Guillelmo Dei gratia Senonensi archiepiscopo'; inc. prol. (f. 3v-4r): 'In hoc libro continentur ista Scolastica hystoria super quinque libros Moysi quorum nomina sunt hec: Genesis, Exodus, Leuiticus, Numerus uel Numeripluraliter, Deuteronomius, Iosue, Iudicum, Ruth, quatuor libri Regum. Incipit prefatio sequentis operis. [f. 4r] Imperatorie maiestatis est in palatio tres habere mansiones'; inc. (f. 4r): 'Incipit Hystoria scolastica de creatione empirei celi et IIIIor elementorum. In principio erat uerbum et uerbum erat principium in quo et per quod Pater creauit mundum'; expl. (f. 170v): 'uel quia regna quandoque sine rege fuerunt. Explicit liber Regum quartus'
Note
Herkomst: Volgens Lieftinck 1953 is dit handschrift afkomstig uit het scriptorium van Sint-Donatiaan te Brugge
Genre/form
Bijbelcommentaren|Q11611056
Topic general subdivision
Godsdienst
Material
Perkament (Wikidata Q226697)
Extent
170 ff.
Dimensions
420 x 310 mm
Decoration and binding
Vol. I (Cfr. Vol. II: Ms. 401)
Decoration and binding
lombarden|Q28670094
Decoration and binding
gedecoreerde initialen|Q63872683
Decoration and binding
gehistorieerde initialen|Q4924460
Decoration and binding
Campmansband (ca. 1625-1650)
Bibliographic references
De Poorter, A., Catalogue des manuscrits de la bibliothèque publique de la ville de Bruges (Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques de Belgique 2), Gembloux: Duculot, 1934
Bibliographic references
Busine, L. - Ludo Vandamme e.a., Besloten wereld, open boeken: Middeleeuwse handschriften in dialoog met actuale kunst, Tielt: Lannoo, 2002
Bibliographic references
Hoste, Anselm. De handschriften van Ter Doest. Steenbrugge: Sint-Pietersabdij, 1993
Bibliographic references
Isaac, M.T., Les livres manuscrits de l'Abbaye des Dunes d'après le catalogue du XVIIe siècle (Livre - Idées - Société 4), Verviers: Gason, 1984
Bibliographic references
Janzen, Jenneka. Written Culture at Ten Duinen. Cistercian Monks and their Books c. 1125-c. 1250. [Onuitgegeven doctoraatsthesis: Universiteit Leiden, 2019]
Bibliographic references
Lieftinck, G.I., De librijen en scriptoria der Westvlaamse Cisterciënser-abdijen Ter Duinen en Ter Doest in de 12e en 13e eeuw en de betrekkingen tot het atelier van de kapittelschool van Sint Donatiaan te Brugge, Brussel: AWLSK, 1953
Bibliographic references
Le Loup, W. e.a., Vlaamse kunst op perkament: handschriften en miniaturen te Brugge van de 12de tot de 16de eeuw, Brugge: Stadsbestuur, 1981
Bibliographic references
van Belleghem, Doenja (ed.), De Duinenhandschriften : over de manuscripten van de cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen in het Grootseminarie Brugge en de Openbare bibliotheek Brugge, Brugge: Openbare Bibliotheek, 2016
Bibliographic references
Online catalogue description by Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Public Library Bruges). Online catalogusbeschrijving door Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge)