• Sermones Sancti Augustini Episcopi.

Extent:
  • 106 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 193 x 115 (125-132 x 80) mm bound to 200 x 124 mm.
Date:
  • 1100-1150
Language:
Author:
  • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Abstract:
  • Prologue and ten sermons based on the Gospel of John.
Description:
  • Incipit: “Sermones Sancti Augustini Episcopi. de caritate in epistola beati johannis euangeliste ab eo quod scriptum est: quod fuit ab initio usque id, qui odit fratrem suum in tenebris ambulat, et nescit quo eat? quoniam tenebre excecauerunt oculos eius…”
  • Explicit: “Quis me amauit et ad me non peruenit?”
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from incipit (fol. 2b).
  • An entire quire is missing between quires 11 and 12.
  • Collation: Parchment ; fol. 106 ; quires numbered on verse of final leaf using black dots ; modern foliation in pencil.
  • Layout: 21 lines per page.
  • Description: Incipit and section headings in alternate lines of red and green ; capitals stroked in red.
  • Decoration: Sermons open with an 8- to 10-line foliate Romanesque pen-drawn initial in brown ink, uncolored (fols. 28r, 39v, 50r, 61r, 89r, and 102r); beasts included within initials on fols. 50r and 61r; Sermon 1 opens with a 3-line parti-colored initial in red and green on fol. 3r.
  • Origin: Probably from Alsace, possibly the Metz area.
Binding note:
  • France (Alsace), 12th century. Quarter-sawn oak (10 mm thick), with plain-wound endbands over split alum-tawed bands. Remains of strap with three brass nails on upper and remains of 5 pins for catchplate on lower cover.
Provenance:
  • Unknown early provenance. 17th century owned by the Jesuit College at Metz. In the 18th century may have been taken to China, or at least was marked by a missionary to China since it has two different Chinese ownership seals. Bernard Quaritch offered it for sale in 1910. Sold 1912 by Sotheby's, London to J.&J. Leighton. An unidentified American sale catalogue description formerly pasted on the inside front cover lists this manuscript as no. 380, and quotes a 1904 publication. Robert Garrett purchased the manuscript in March 1925 from the New York bookseller Erhard Weyhe. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.
Former owner:
  • Weyhe, Erhard, 1882-1972
  • Collège jésuite (Metz, France)
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 64.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 122-124.
Alternative:
  • In Iohannis epistulam ad Parthos tractatus
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