Farfel Notebook 04: Leaves 223-316

IV (223-316) LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY - ORGANIZED - 1891 - STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD BOOKSTORE 100 SHEETS 11 x 8 1/2 COLLEGE RULED EYE EASE PAPER MADE EXPRESSLY FOR STANFORD BOOKSTORE, STANFORD, CA 94305 $1.29 WCBA-506

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223 Book Fair - Los Angeles (Maggs Bros.) Feb. 1986 $110

Otto Ege-MSS collection #7 hand characteristic of N. France & England of the period, early 13th c.

Petri Rigae 1140? - (Biblia Versificata) Petrus de Riga (d. 1209) Aurora. c.1300 England, lot half of 13th c. (late 12th c) p 123? Complete leaf in vellum from the verse Bible Traditionally known as the Aurora for the light it shed on obscure passages of scripture. Written in a single column of 48-49 lines, regular early gothic script, brown ink, ruled in plummet, 4 two line initials in alternating red & blue, calligraphic first letter to each line, long upright format measuring 239x110 mm] (195 x approx. 67mm). - 2nd ed. "Recapitulationes." The unused format of this leaf, twice as long as it is now, shows the English custom of folding the skins lengthwise. -may date from end of the 12th c; may therefore be from the earliest manuscripts of the Aurora. Petrus de Riga (canon of St. Denis, Paris) composed the work late in the 12th c. [illegible] the text through 3 revisions. The Aurora was one of the most popular Latin books of poetry of the late 12th & 13th c. It was further revised & enlarged between 1200 & 1208 by Aegidius of Paris. It became a popular compendium of Bible texts & gained a reputation through use as a university textbook. -Su Maggs Bulletin [insert] #13 - 27 [end insert] # 12 - 23 & Quaritch # 1036 - 125. -It is remarkable that several 12th c Latin epics were printed & reprinted, but that 2 of the poems most frequent in manuscripts were never considered worth publishing: the Anti-Claudianus of Alanus de Insulis & the Aurora of Petrus de Riga.

The composition of the whole text of the Aurora must have covered a period of years. Perhaps 2 decades, between 1170 & 1200. Petri's longest ed. contained more than 15,000 lines. Between 1200, & even earlier, & 1208 Aegidius of Paris produced his 2 redactions of the Aurora. Actus Apostolorum, Iob, Cantica canticorum - books in riming hexameters - all other books were written in distiche. Recapitulationes is a lipogrammatic or "letter dropping" book.

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224 Book Fair - Los Angeles (Maggs Bros) Feb. 1986 $140

Thomas Aquinas (1226? - 1274) Super primo libro sententiarum. Original leaves from famous books #6 Italy. 2nd half 15th c. (1470) Otto Ege MSS collection #40 See # 290 Vellum lcaf, with one 3 - line initial in red & many paragraph marks in red & blue alternately. Written in a small humanistic [insert] book [end insert] hand with brown ink, double columns of 37 lines. Page ruled with a style. p. 63 Size of leaf : 289 x 215 m - wide margins. Handsome manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. See Maggs bulletin # 11 - 29. 13 - 29 15 - 89 Cat 1172#106 IV & V Liber Primus Distinctio VIII Quaest. Scripta super libros Sententiarum - a theological synthesis elaborated while Aquinas was lecturing at [insert] St. Jacques [end insert] Paris on The Sentences, c 1256. See [?Mignc?] Vol. 192 p.519 Bishop of Paris [insert] c 1100- [end insert] (d. 1160) Italian Theologian. Petrus Lombardus - Quatuor Libni Sententiarum - the standard medieval univ. textbook for the study of theology which remained in use to the 18th c. It was not only the basis of all later theological science in its doctrine, it was the [crossed out] [illegible] [end crossed out] basis in a much more literal sense, for the majority of the subsequent Theological works were written in the form of commentaries on the Sentences. The one & only Paris printed ed. of the foremost of all Paris textbooks, does not appear until 1508 xp. -Book of Sentences - completed around 1150-52. 4 books - deal respectively with God, Creation, Incarnation & Redemption & finally, Sacraments & The Last Things. -St. T. Aquinas in [insert] (1252-7) [end insert] 1254-6, commented on the Sentences, although the importance of the commentaries as an endorsement of Peter Lombard is somewhat eclipsed by the fact that Thomas later felt a need to compose his Summa Theologies to introduce better order into the treatment of theological topics. -his earliest great work, in reality a series of public lectures.