Hugo de Sancto Victore - 1096 - 1141 (VIAF: 9865788) - auteur (dubium)
Language
Latin
Date of creation
13de eeuw; ca. 1201-ca. 1225 (1185)
Origin place
[West-Europa]
Summary
Manuscript 507 is an intriguing collection of texts. The first text (ff. 001r-036v) called by Carolus de Visch Liber Policratici in dogmate philosophorum is actually known as the Moralium dogma philosophorum, a 12th-century compilation of statements on morality by philosophers. The sources are primarily classical (especially Cicero), while ecclesiastical authorities are rarely found. The authorship of the text has been debated, with William of Conches, Walter of Châtillon and Hildebert of Lavardin all put forward as candidates. Why De Visch used the name Policraticus, which is used for a mid-12th-century work by John of Salisbury on political theory, is unknown. The second text (ff. 36v-85v) is in fact not a single work, but rather a collection of no less than 97 sermons and excerpts. Only a few of these have been identified: they are taken from the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, Hildebert of Lavardin and the Glossa Ordinaria. As most excerpts are introduced by rubrics, this might be a compendium used by clerics for inspiration when preparing their own sermons. Similarly, the third text (f. 85v) is a collection of four unknown excerpts. The latter two have been attributed to Hugh of St.-Victor as some of his miscellaneous works, but already in the nineteenth century this authorship was deemed uncertain. The final text (ff. 85v-88r) is the so-called De sex alis Cherubim. It discusses contemplative virtues through the metaphor of a seraphim (curiously no cherubim) mentioned by the prophet Isaiah. This angel has six wings with five feathers each. Each wing symbolizes a specific order of virtues, with each feather being a specific virtue within that order. The work has traditionally been attributed to Alan of Lille (d. 1203), but current consensus is that it was excerpted from Hugh of St.-Victor's De arca Noe morali. This text was a popular one in medieval monasteries. The manuscript is dated to the first quarter of the thirteenth century. It displays several of the characteristics of that era. The text is written in a protogothic script and several letters on the final line of the folia have decorated descenders into the lower margin. Decoration consists of penwork initials in red and green ink, lombards in the same colours, and intensive use of rubrics and red ink for majuscules and chapter numbers in the index to the first work. The final text has been written consecutively by three different hands; the last has neglected to continue the addition of decoration. The texts are organized in a single column per page. The codex is bound in medieval blind stamped leather over wooden boards. Traces of clamps are still visible. The fenestra has survived and is attached to the back board. The codex was owned by Ten Duinen abbey. The cross-shaped stamp of the abbey is found on the first and final leaves. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]
Note
Verzamelhandschrift
Note
De dekbladen bevatten een contemporain fragment van een traktaat, bestaande uit stukken van o.a. Bernardus Claraevallensis' De consideratione en Sermones in Cantica Canticorum, alsook uit Gaufridus Claraevallensis' Declamationes. Deze tekst bevat gedecoreerde initialen in rood en blauw, en rubrieken.
Genre/form
Traktaat|Q384515
Genre/form
Sermoenen|Q60797
Genre/form
Commentaren|Q1749541
Topic general subdivision
Wijsbegeerte
Topic general subdivision
Godsdienst
Material
Perkament (Wikidata Q226697)
Extent
i + 88 ff.
Dimensions
210 x 150 mm
Decoration and binding
lombarden|Q28670094
Decoration and binding
gedecoreerde initialen|Q63872683
Decoration and binding
Middeleeuwse band
Script
gotische textualis
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
Janzen, Jenneka. Written Culture at Ten Duinen. Cistercian Monks and their Books c. 1125-c. 1250. [Onuitgegeven doctoraatsthesis: Universiteit Leiden, 2019]
Bibliographic references
Chase, Steven, 'De sex alis cherubim', in: Angelic spirituality. Medieval perspectives on the ways of angels, tr. Steven Chase (New York e.a., Paulist Press, 2002), 121-146
Bibliographic references
Holmberg, J., Das Moralium dogma philosophorum des Guillaume de Conches lateinisch, altfranzösisch und mittelniederfränkisch (Uppsala, 1929)
Bibliographic references
Williams, John R., The Authorship of the Moralium Dogma Philosophorum, Speculum 6 (1931), 392-411
Bibliographic references
Online catalogue description by Dr. Mark Vermeer. Online catalogusbeschrijving door Dr. Mark Vermeer.
