Beinecke MS 20 (olim Z109.04)                                           Germany, 1452
Albertus Magnus, Commentarii in Librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi

          ff. 1r-317r    Sapientia edificauit sibi domum. excedit columpnas
     septem [Prov. 9.1]. In isto verbo praepostero ordine narrantur...De
     pedibus sedentis super solium. Istud accipitur de ysaya [7.1] et licet
     aliter exponitur a beato dyonisio tam in celesti...breuis totius libri
     sentenciarum epilogus. In quo et finitur...Amen. Et sic est finis
     Scripti sentenciarum quarti Doctoris Alberti magni Completus Anno
     domini millesimo Quadringentesimo Quinquagesimo Secundo tercia die
     Augusti De quo laus detur qui in celis dominetur Per me laurencium de
     mechlinia.

          Stegmueller, Sent., v. 1, p. 26.

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Ancre 381, Balance 2427, Tete
     de boeuf 15102), ff. ii (parchment, stubs only) + 317 + ii (parchment,
     stubs only), 283 x 212 (218 x 155) mm. Written in 2 columns, 50-60
     lines; frame-ruled in hard point; some prickings at top and bottom of
     folio.
          I-XVI^^12, XVII^^16, XVIII^^12, XIX^^12 (6 and 7 glued together; the
     glued sides are blank), XX-XXIV^^12, XXV^^14, XXVI^^16 (-13, 14, 15, 16).
          Gothic cursive script of three hands. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-156v;
     Scribe 2: ff. 157r-274r; Scribe 3, Laurence of Mechlin, wrote ff. 274r-
     317r and dated the codex 1452 (see colophon above). The first and third
     copyists placed catchwords along lower edge near binding and signed
     leaves in lower right corner of recto for first half of quire (e.g.,
     bi, bii, etc.). Scribe 2 used catchwords underlined in red, located
     under written space in the margin. Some folios are also signed in
     arabic notation, in red, on recto of first leaves of gathering.
          Plain initials in red and rubrics throughout.
          Binding: s. xv. Original sewing on five slit, tawed straps laced
     into wooden boards. Endband cores laid in grooves. Covered with white,
     tawed skin, blind-tooled with a St. Andrew's cross within panel
     borders. The covering leather is sewn around the endbands, from spine
     to edges, with a back-stitch. Traces of round bosses, probably brass,
     and of two strap and pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board.

          Written by two unidentified scribes and by Laurence of Mechlin
     (Colophons, v. 4, p. 25, no. 12308) in Germany in 1452. Was 0.55 in the
     library of the Carthusians of St. Barbara at Cologne (C. Loeffler,
     Koelnische Bibliotheksgeschichte in Umriss [Cologne, 1923] p. 71, no.
     182; R. B. Marks, The Medieval Manucript Library of the Charterhouse of
     St. Barbara in Cologne in Analecta Cartusiana 21-22 [Salzburg, 1974] v.
     1, p. 89, fig. 82; v. 2, pp. 382-83). Evidently it was copied as part
     of the effort to rebuild the library after it burned in 1451. Belonged
     to Leander Van Ess, Darmstadt (no. 189, on spine); his sale to Sir
     Thomas Phillipps (no. 573; stamp inside front cover, tag on spine).
     Phillipps sale (London, 1910, no. 9) to Dobell. Given to Yale in 1929
     by Mrs. J. L. Leipziger.

     secundo folio: et insuper

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 166, no. 20.
          H. S. Garrison, "D. Alberti Magni Commentarii in Librum IV
     Sententiarum," Gazette 5 (1930) p. 14.

Barbara A. Shailor