• [Theological miscellany].

Extent:
  • 246 leaves : parchment, illustration ; 170 x 118 (122-140 x 85-100) mm bound to 182 x 130 mm.
Date:
  • 1075-1200
Language:
Abstract:
  • Collection of theological works in five discrete parts that were joined into a composite volume by 1376 at the latest, when the codex was described by Peter of Arbon in the earliest surviving Admont catalogue.
Contents:
  • 1. fol. 1r-22r: Sermo de blasphemia in spiritum sanctum / St. Augustine.
  • 2. fol. 22r-32v: De fide catholica ad Ambrosianum / Peter Damian. Letter written to a monk named Ambrose, probably after 1060, concerning Christian theology, particularly on the nature of the Trinity.
  • 3. fol. 32v-35r: Confessiones / St. Augustine. Book 7, chapter xix-xxi.
  • 4. fol. 35r-40r: De anima / Cassiodorus. Chapters viii-ix.
  • 5. fol. 41r-69r: Expositio in VII psalmos penitentiales / Alcuin. Commentary on the title and text of each psalm.
  • 6. fol. 69r-75r: De confessione peccatorum / Alcuin.
  • 7. 75r-81v: Interpretationes notarum. An elaboration of Cassiodorus' list of the marginal symbols used in his Expositio psalmorum.
  • 8. fol. 81v-82r: De septem gradibus christi and De officiis vii gradum. A two-part text on the 7 orders of the priesthood.
  • 9. 82r-82v: Sententiae / Isidore of Seville. On the nature and orders of angels.
  • 10. 83r-151v: Sententiae / Peter Abelard.
  • 11. fol. 152r: [Marian hymn] With musical notations.
  • 12. fol. 153r-197v: Sententiae doctorum. Preceded by a list of chapters.
  • 13. fol. 198r-246v: Sententiae / Anselm of Laon.
  • 14. fol. 247r: De forma praedicandi. Brief text or extract on preaching.
Description:
  • Incipit: [Sermo de blasphemia] "Sermo sancti Augustini de verbis domini secundum matheum. Qui plasphemaverit (!) spiritum sanctum non remittetur ..." -- [De fide catholica] "De Catholica Fide. Dei filivs Qvem Pro pria Substantia deus pater ante secula genuit uerum naturę hominem induit ..." -- [Confessiones] "Tantum senciebam de domino christo meo quantum de excellentis sapientię uiro ..." -- [De anima] "De sede anime. Quidam sedem animae quamuis sit corpora tota diffusa ..." -- [Expositio] "Incipit prologus sequentis operis. Sanctissimo patri et svmmo pontifici Arnoni episcopo humilis levita alchuinus salutem ..."
  • Incipit (continued): [De confessione] "Ad pueros sancti martini de confessione pecetorum. Dilectissimis in christo filiis bonaeque spei adolescentulis ..." -- [Interpretationes notarum] "Diversas notas more maiorum certis locis estimaverimus affigendas ..." -- [Sententiae (Abelard)] "[T]ria sunt ut arbitror in quibus hu manae salutis summa consistit ..." -- [Marian hymn] “Imperatrix gloriosa potens et imperiosa ... Radix jesse” -- [Sententiae doctorum] "In nomine domini sentencie uel ammoniciones plurium doctorum primum sancti bene dicti abbatis ammonicio quasi prologus Incipit Inicivm ..." -- [Sententiae (Anselm)] "Incipit Liber Sentenciarum. Principium et causa omnium deus ante omnia eternaliter in omnibus inuariabiliter et post omnia est interminabiliter ..."
  • Explicit: [Sermo de blasphemia] : "...ut haberemus unde nos meditando aleremur, et uobis loquendo mini straremus." -- [De fide catholica] "Cuiusque uero relinquantur industrie, si quis catholicorum docto rum super hoc elimatius scripserit inuenire" -- [Confessiones] "Hęc mihi inuiscerabantur miris modis cum minimum apostolorum tuorum legerem et consideraueram opera tua et expaueram." -- [De anima] "vt corpus subderet animę, animam sibi, totumque sibi salutariter seruiret creatori."
  • Explicit (continued): [Expositio] "Quoniam ipsorum est regnum caelorum." -- [De confessione] "... mercedem habeatis perpetuam in caelis." -- [Interpretationes notarum] "... id est spiritus contribulatus." -- [Sententiae (Abelard)] "... erga proximum quisque exiuit, inde grauiter est puniendus." -- [Sententiae doctorum] "... quod eis sanctis pauperibus in necessitate parcuntur. Finiunt cleri delicie." -- [Sententiae (Anselm)] "Si autem duxerit dimittet ipsam et priori vxori adherebit. Sentencię"
  • Ms. composite codex.
  • Title from printed catalog.
  • Partial contents list attached to the outside of the upper cover. Stamp of Bibliotheca Admontensis (fol. 1a and 247a). Badly-worn illegible title on spine.
  • Collation: Parchment ; fol. 246 ; fol. 247 attached to lower cover ; quires 1-4 and booklet 3 are quaternions ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 20-28 lines per page ; ruled.
  • Description: Written in late Carolingian minuscule (fols. 1r-40v) and Protogothic (fols. 41r-247r) written by many scribes working at different times ; partially rubricated ; 1-2 line red initials ; comprised of 4 volumes bound together by 1376 at the latest.
  • Decoration: Early modern hand-drawn arms of the Admont Abbey (“ADMUNDO”) on the front pastedown.
  • Origin: Produced in the late 11th and in the12th century, in whole or part at the Benedictine Abbey of Admont (founded in 1074), diocese of Salzburg, Austria.
Binding note:
  • Austria, 15th century. Alum-tawed pigskin over beech boards (10 mm thick), top and bottom edges beveled, fore-edges square. Remnants of strap-and-pin fastening visible. Boss on edge of lower cover.
  • Austria, 15th century. Alum-tawed pigskin over beech boards (10 mm thick), top and bottom edges beveled, fore-edges square.
Provenance:
  • Number 729 in the library of the Admont Abbey who sold it in the 1930s. Acquired in 1936 by the bookseller E.P. Goldschmidt, who sold it to Robert Garrett on 7 September 1936. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897 1942.
Former owner:
  • Stift Admont. Bibliothek
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 169
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 385-389.
Alternative:
  • Abaelard, Alcuin, Interpretationes notarum, etc.
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