Brugge, Archief Grootseminarie, Ms. 120/159

Ludolphus a Saxonia, De Vita Christi, part I

Manuscript description

Manuscript ID

mmfc-18797

Title

Ludolphus a Saxonia, De Vita Christi, part I

Collection

Brugge, Archief Grootseminarie

Shelfmark

Brugge, Archief Grootseminarie, Ms. 120/159

Other numbers

923 (Repertorium van verluchte handschriften 'Collectie Vlaanderen' (Illuminare))

Heritage register listing

Flemish list of masterpieces (collection): 554

Manuscript Category

religion

Document type

library book / reference book

Topic

Jesus Christ (life)
Jesus Christ (passion and resurrection)

Notes

General
Manuscript was part of a larger volume collection containing the Vita Christi; the other four manuscripts are also part of the collection of the Brugge Grootseminarie. See also Brugge, Archief Grootseminarie, Brugge, Ms. 121/158, Ms. 122/81, Ms. 123/82, and Ms. 124/83.

Provenance

Owner
Abbey of Ter Doest
Date
1474
Evidence type
Ex-libris

References

Online catalogue record

Grootseminarie Ten Duinen Manuscript Catalogue (OBB)

Digital reproduction

Viewer Mmmonk

IIIF Manifest

https://sharedcanvas.be/IIIF/manifests/B_GS_MS120-159

Other online data sources

BALaT: 108588, 11007237

Binding

UNIT ID

mmfc-18799

Leaf count

186 fol.

Endpapers

parchment, equalized

Binding

Binding type

Wooden boards

Date

Original binding

Cover material

Leather

Decoration

Blind tooling, Corner pieces

Dimensions

h: 432 mm x w: 311 mm x d: 95 mm

Fragments present in binding

Yes

Book block

UNIT ID

mmfc-18798

Page range

fol. 1-186

Form

Codex

Integrity

Unknown

Language

Latin (main)

Quires

Regular quires (5 bifolia per quire, Hair side out)

Origin

Dated or datable manuscript

Dated, Localised, Scribal subscription
Date
1474 (Roos in't Velt)
Evidence
Scribal subscription
Place
Abbey of Ter Doest , Flanders, Low Countries (Roos in't Velt)
Evidence
Scribal subscription
Colophon 1
fol. 186r (Latin)
Transcription
Hunc librum scripsit fratrem michael filius ryquardi orindus de slusa conversus huius monasterii de capella thosan et eum finiuit atque compleuit anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo quarto. vicesima tercia martii.
Place and date
23-03-1474

Support

Material

Parchment

Number of leaves

186

Foliation

Medieval foliation, Medieval foliation (on verso)

Page dimensions

h: 414 mm x w: 309 mm (fol. 54)

Leave thickness

fol. 1-186, 186 leaves (78 mm)

Layout

Section
fol. 1r-186v (fol. 92r)
Description
Full ruling in lead-point, with the two top, middle and bottom lines ruled in ink (6 lines in total). Horizontal lines also ruled in ink.
Columns
2
Lines
53; lines ruled: 54 (written above top line)
Layout formula
| T | | T |
Ruling
Full ruling, Lead-point ruling
Prickings
no prickings visible in outer margin
Text dimensions
h: 317 mm x w: 214 mm
Margins
Top margin: 30 mm, inner margin: 37 mm
Intercolumnar space
17 mm
Paratextual features
running titles

Writing

Script

Northern gothica textualis (Northern gothica textualis formata)

Scribe

Michael filius Ricardi de Slusa

Decoration

Type

ornamental initials, miniatures, illuminated, border decoration, floral border, border (four-margins), champ initials, pen-flourished parted initials, historiated initials, paraphs, colour stroking, plain initials, initials with marginal extensions, rubrics, rubrics red

Technique

Gilding

Description

Manuscript contains two gilded miniatures: Christ as the Salvator mundi on fol. 1r, and a historiated initial depicting Salome presenting the head of John the Baptist to Herodes and Herodias on fol 135r. Both fol. 1r and 135 contain full floral borders with gilding, as well as smaller champ initials. Pen-flourished parted initials, sometimes with marginal extensions, appear throughout the manuscript, as well as alternately red and blue plain initials, red rubrication, red colour stroking, and alternately red and blue paraphs.

1. Ludolphus de Saxonia, De Vita Christi

UNIT ID

mmfc-54301

Page range

fol. 1-186

Title

Ludolphus de Saxonia, De Vita Christi

Vita Christi

Contributors

Ludolphus Saxo (author)

Language

Latin (main)

Incipit

Incipit prologus ludolphi alemanni carthusiensis in uitam ihesu christi. Fundamentum aliud nemo potes ponere ut apostolus ait. (fol. 1r)

Explicit

Explicit secunda pars de vita ihesu christi collecta per dompnum ludolphum sacre pagine doctorem monachumque carthusiensem natione alemannum (fol. 186r)

Pastedowns

2. Bavarian homiliary, I, 36-37 and 32

UNIT ID

mmfc-54303

Page range

fol. [1]v-[2]r (defective)

Title

Bavarian homiliary, I, 36-37 and 32

Language

Latin (main)

Rubric

.I. Lectio sancti evangelis sancto iohannem (fol. [1]v)

Quotation

[Q]uia dominus et salvator noster homofactus est gaudere magis quam mira[r]edebemus. Simul etiam et gaudere quod vitia sanavit anim[arum] quamquod sanavit languores corporum mortuorum. (fol. [1]v)

Notes

Textual content
Text refers to the Gospel of John, and explicitly quotes John 5:3 on fol. [1]v through a quotation from Augustinus Aurelius ('...Ingressus est locum ubi iacebat magna multitudo languentium, caecorum, claudorum, aridorum...'). It quotes from Augustinus, Tractatus in Evangelium Johannis.
Textual content
Fol. [1]v contains a homily on Matthew 12:38-50 for the first Wednesday of Lent and a homily on John 5:1-14 for the first Friday of Lent, corresponding with Homilies 36 and 37 from the Bavarian Homiliary. Fol. [2]r has not been identified yet, but possibly stems from same collection.
Manuscript description
  1. Binding
    1. Book block
      1. 1. Ludolphus de Saxonia, De Vita Christi
    2. Pastedowns
      1. 2. Bavarian homiliary, I, 36-37 and 32