Super historiam Ihierosolymitanam ... [etc.] [manuscript], ca. 1420.
Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240. author.; Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Laus eremiticae vitae.; Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379, correspondent.; Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, addressee.; Fretellus, Rorgo, active 12th century. Descriptio Terre Sancte.; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Super historiam Ihierosolymitanam ... [etc.] [manuscript], ca. 1420.
Uniform title
Historia Hierosolimitana abbreviata
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Iacobi de Vitriaco ... Libri duo, quorum prior Orientalis sive Hierosolymitanae, alter Occidentalis historiae ...
Description
213 leaves ; 215 x 145 mm
Associated name
Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240. author.
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379, correspondent.
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, addressee.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379, correspondent.
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, addressee.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Material base
Manuscript mostly on paper; leaf 13 on vellum.
Scope and content
Contains Jacques de Vitry's narration of events in the Holy Land in the time of the crusades, with a short treatise on the Eucharist. Also included is a spurious sermon by Augustine; a letter on the institution of anchorites and a treatise on the eremitical life, both attributed to Basil of Caesarea; two descriptions of the Holy Land (the first by Rorgo Fretellus; the second is spuriously attributed to Eugippius); and an unknown work attributed to Rorgo Fretellus.
Language Note
In Latin.
Note
Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger from rubric of prologue (leaf 26r).
Collation: Leaves ii + 213 (1-12 (paper), 13 (vellum), 14-212 (paper)) + ii; 1¹⁴( -2 +1 leaf vellum) 2-17¹² 18⁸; no catchwords; stub between leaves 6 and 7.
Layout: Written in 33 long lines (dimensions of written space: 145 x 85 mm); frame ruled; marginalia throughout.
Script: Written in Northern Hybrid script.
Decoration: Four pen-flourished initials, two of which are decorated in red and green, leaves 1r, 14r, 26r and 134r.
Origin: Possibly of Flemish or Italian origin.
Edges cut affecting marginalia.
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.113.
Title supplied by cataloger from rubric of prologue (leaf 26r).
Collation: Leaves ii + 213 (1-12 (paper), 13 (vellum), 14-212 (paper)) + ii; 1¹⁴( -2 +1 leaf vellum) 2-17¹² 18⁸; no catchwords; stub between leaves 6 and 7.
Layout: Written in 33 long lines (dimensions of written space: 145 x 85 mm); frame ruled; marginalia throughout.
Script: Written in Northern Hybrid script.
Decoration: Four pen-flourished initials, two of which are decorated in red and green, leaves 1r, 14r, 26r and 134r.
Origin: Possibly of Flemish or Italian origin.
Edges cut affecting marginalia.
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.113.
Contents
1. leaves 1r-4v: "[rubr.] Incipit tractatus beati Augustini de misera uita corporis et commune. [text] O uita que tantos decepisti, tantos seduxistsi, tantos excecasti ... domino nostro Iesu Christo qui cum Patre et Spiritu sancto regnat per infinita secula seculorum. Amen." (Migne, Patrologia Latina 40:1332-1334).
2. Leaves 4v-9v: "[rubr.] Incipit epistola Basilii Cesariensis episcopi ad Gregorium [s] Nazanzenum super institutione anachoritarum siue perfectorum sub transitu aut profectu heremi et solit[...]. [text] Agnoui literas tuas, ut enim qui amicorum filios ex ingenita quam per se ferunt ... cum gemitu et lacrimis diuinum adiutorium ad ea perficienda, que studiose proponit. Deo gratias. [rubr.] Explicit epistola beati Basilii Cusariensis [sic] ad Gregorium Nazanzenum de transitu ad heremi[...]."
3. leaves 10r-13r: "[rubr.] Tractatus beati Basilii episcopi de uita solitaria. [text] Libet inter ceterea de singularis vite meritis pauca perstringere et quid ... ad habitacionem perueniet domus non manufacte sed in celis eterne, sociatus angelicis choris, ipso prestante qui est cum Patre et Spiritu sancto Deus benedictus in secula. Amen." (Migne, Patrologia Graeca 145: 246-252).
4. leaves 14r-14v: "[rubr.] Descriptio Terre Sancte, archidyaconus Antiochenus [text] Domino suo uenerabili et fratri in Domino R. Dei gratia Toletano comiti R. Fretellus eadem gratia archidiaconus Antiochie ... noticiam querere dignatus es, prout sanius potero, sublimitati tue diligenter elucidare non dedignabor. [rubr.] Explicit prologus." (Boeren, P.C., Rorgo Fretellus, p. 53-54).
5. Leaves 14v-25v: "[text] Vertamus eya stylum nostrum sumentes inicium ab Hebron que et Hebron. Hebron olim metropolis ... [leaf 25r, linea 9] Dauid dicitur Ioseph attestante fabricauit eamque Antoniam uocauit." (Migne, Patrologia Latina 133:991-1004; An unknown work attributed to "frater Fretellus" follows, leaves 25r-25v).
6. Leaves 26r-213v: "[rubr.] Prologus m[magistri] Iacobi de Vitriaco, Canon. Regularis Episcop. Acconensis, super historiam Iherosolymitanam, quia postea factus fuit espiscopus Tusculanus, et cardinalis [e..] Ro[...] diaconus [...] [text] Postquam diuine propitiacionis munificiencia exercitus christiani longamitatem et patiencia clementer respiciens ...; [Index of the chapters for book one (leaves 27v-29r) precede book one of Historia Orientalis, 29r: rubr.] Cur dominus Terram Sanctam uariis flagellis et subalternis casibus exposuerit, capitulum primum. [text] Terra Sancta promissionis Deo amabilis et sanctis angelis uenerabilis et uniuerso mundo admirabilis ... a Deo et sancta Romana ecclesia consolacionem et subsidium de dei in diem expectantes. [rubr.] Explicit liber primus." (Moschus, F. Douai, 1597, leaves 1-258); "[leaf 133v, rubr.]: Incipit [liber] secundus in cuius parte prima occidentalium habuitur, narrantur primum capitulum de crrupcione occidentalis regionis et de ecclesiis occidentalium. [text] Dum igitur orientalis ecclesia que quondam a finibus terre uenit audire sapienciam Salomonis ... sed propter uestustatem forme, singulis [septi]manis renouanda sunt sacramenta." (The Historia Occidentalis of Jacques de Vitry: A Critical Edition / edited by F. Hinnebusche. Fribourg: University Press Fribourg Switzerland, 1972, p. 73-246).
2. Leaves 4v-9v: "[rubr.] Incipit epistola Basilii Cesariensis episcopi ad Gregorium [s] Nazanzenum super institutione anachoritarum siue perfectorum sub transitu aut profectu heremi et solit[...]. [text] Agnoui literas tuas, ut enim qui amicorum filios ex ingenita quam per se ferunt ... cum gemitu et lacrimis diuinum adiutorium ad ea perficienda, que studiose proponit. Deo gratias. [rubr.] Explicit epistola beati Basilii Cusariensis [sic] ad Gregorium Nazanzenum de transitu ad heremi[...]."
3. leaves 10r-13r: "[rubr.] Tractatus beati Basilii episcopi de uita solitaria. [text] Libet inter ceterea de singularis vite meritis pauca perstringere et quid ... ad habitacionem perueniet domus non manufacte sed in celis eterne, sociatus angelicis choris, ipso prestante qui est cum Patre et Spiritu sancto Deus benedictus in secula. Amen." (Migne, Patrologia Graeca 145: 246-252).
4. leaves 14r-14v: "[rubr.] Descriptio Terre Sancte, archidyaconus Antiochenus [text] Domino suo uenerabili et fratri in Domino R. Dei gratia Toletano comiti R. Fretellus eadem gratia archidiaconus Antiochie ... noticiam querere dignatus es, prout sanius potero, sublimitati tue diligenter elucidare non dedignabor. [rubr.] Explicit prologus." (Boeren, P.C., Rorgo Fretellus, p. 53-54).
5. Leaves 14v-25v: "[text] Vertamus eya stylum nostrum sumentes inicium ab Hebron que et Hebron. Hebron olim metropolis ... [leaf 25r, linea 9] Dauid dicitur Ioseph attestante fabricauit eamque Antoniam uocauit." (Migne, Patrologia Latina 133:991-1004; An unknown work attributed to "frater Fretellus" follows, leaves 25r-25v).
6. Leaves 26r-213v: "[rubr.] Prologus m[magistri] Iacobi de Vitriaco, Canon. Regularis Episcop. Acconensis, super historiam Iherosolymitanam, quia postea factus fuit espiscopus Tusculanus, et cardinalis [e..] Ro[...] diaconus [...] [text] Postquam diuine propitiacionis munificiencia exercitus christiani longamitatem et patiencia clementer respiciens ...; [Index of the chapters for book one (leaves 27v-29r) precede book one of Historia Orientalis, 29r: rubr.] Cur dominus Terram Sanctam uariis flagellis et subalternis casibus exposuerit, capitulum primum. [text] Terra Sancta promissionis Deo amabilis et sanctis angelis uenerabilis et uniuerso mundo admirabilis ... a Deo et sancta Romana ecclesia consolacionem et subsidium de dei in diem expectantes. [rubr.] Explicit liber primus." (Moschus, F. Douai, 1597, leaves 1-258); "[leaf 133v, rubr.]: Incipit [liber] secundus in cuius parte prima occidentalium habuitur, narrantur primum capitulum de crrupcione occidentalis regionis et de ecclesiis occidentalium. [text] Dum igitur orientalis ecclesia que quondam a finibus terre uenit audire sapienciam Salomonis ... sed propter uestustatem forme, singulis [septi]manis renouanda sunt sacramenta." (The Historia Occidentalis of Jacques de Vitry: A Critical Edition / edited by F. Hinnebusche. Fribourg: University Press Fribourg Switzerland, 1972, p. 73-246).
Binding information
Bound in 19th-century brown morocco gold-tooled goatskin, by Rivière; two single line fillet frames with a leaf, rosette, and fleuron in each corner; board edge tooling and raised bands; size: 230 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Formerly owned by W.T. Smedley (bookplate).
Source of acquisition
Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM. 15
Includes
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Laus eremiticae vitae.
Fretellus, Rorgo, active 12th century. Descriptio Terre Sancte.
De miseria carnis.
Tractatus de distantiis locorum Terrae Sanctae.
Fretellus, Rorgo, active 12th century. Descriptio Terre Sancte.
De miseria carnis.
Tractatus de distantiis locorum Terrae Sanctae.
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V.a.113
Folger accession
Smedley 15