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Patristic miscellany (MS M.738).

Accession number
MS M.738
Object title
Patristic miscellany (MS M.738).
Created
Italy, 1450-1499.
Binding
English 19th-century red morocco gilt; white moiré doublures with stamped gilt edge; old lettering on fore-edge: Hilarii Pieta. Eps.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1928.
Description
267 leaves (1 column, 33 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 160 mm
Provenance
Arms of the first owner (Bonadies family of Lombardy): argent on a lion gules holding a sword proper a bend azure charged with 3 stars argent; surmounted by a wreathed casque supporting a red demi-lion holding a sword, flanked by the letters B, R.(?), and T.; purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Mrs. Robert Townsend in 1928 and given to the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Notes
Manuscript patristic miscellany; written and illuminated in northern Italy, in a Carthusian monastery, in the second half of the 15th century.
Decoration: 19 illuminated initials with marginal ornament; Bonadies arms on fol. 1r.
Contents
fols. 1r-189v: Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, De trinitate -- fols. 190r-207v: De sinodis -- fols. 212r-215v: Probus, Epistola contra Arrium & reliquos hereticos -- fol. 216r: Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Epistola ad S. Augustinum -- fol. 216r-228v: Saint Augustine, Epistola ad sanctium Hilarium -- fol. 229r: Athanasius, Liber Altricationis -- fol. 229v: Arrius et Athanasius dixerunt Probus -- fols. 244r-246v: Quod-vult-deo deacon at Carthage and correspondence of Saint Augustine -- fol. 247r: Saint Augustine, Prolgue in Librorum omnium heresium -- fols. 264v-266r: Usque huc beatus Augustinus followed by a paragraph on the Hussites, interpolations by the Carthusian compiler -- fol. 267r is ruled but blank.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Latin
Century
Classification