Beinecke MS 207                                                      France, ca. 1270
Thomas Aquinas, In tertium librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi

     1. ff. 1r-132v    [Added by scribe in upper margin:] In nomine patris
     et filii et spiritus sancti amen. [text:] Ad locum vnde exeunt flumina
     reuertuntur ut iterum fluant. ecclesiastes i. ex verbis istis duo
     possumus accipere...et uirtutes perficit quibus ad uitam peruenitur
     eternam in qua cum christo viuamus per omnia secula seculorum amen.
     Explicit tertius fratris. T. de aquino ordinis predicatorum.

          M. F. Moos, ed., Scriptum super III libros Sententiarum (Paris,
     1933) v. 3.

     2. ff. 133r-135v    [Table of contents, in a later hand:] Incipiunt
     tituli libri tertij sancti thomae. Vtrum deum incarnari fuerit
     possibile./ Vtrum fuerit congruum./...Quid per .x. corda psalterij
     intelligatur./ Explicit.

          Parchment, ff. i (parchment) + i (contemporary parchment) + 135 +
     i (contemporary parchment) + i (parchment), 325 x 210 (226 x 163) mm.
     Ff. 1r-132v written in 2 columns of 55 lines; single bounding lines,
     upper horizontal full across; ruled in lead; prickings visible for
     bounding lines only. Art. 2: 3 columns of 55 lines; double outer and
     single inner vertical bounding lines; double upper and lower horizontal
     bounding lines full across, with an additional pair of lines in lower
     margin. Ruled in lead; prickings for all guide-lines.
          I-XI^^12, XII^^3 (structure uncertain). Catchwords near gutter,
     enclosed by rectangle.
          Written in neat gothic textura by a single scribe secundum
          pecias
     (notations along bottom of leaves, mostly trimmed).
          Small decorative initials in red and/or blue with penwork designs
     of either or both colors; notes for illuminator in margins. Paragraph
     marks alternating red and blue throughout; running headings in red and
     blue.
          Some folios mended with chartreuse thread.
          Binding: 1899. Quarter leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled,
     with a gold-tooled label and brass clasps. Bound by Douglas Cockerell
     (stamp with date inside back cover).

     Written in Paris ca. 1270; copied from an exemplar vended by
     Guglielmus Senonensis, stationer on the rue St. Jacques (see P. M. J. 
     Gils, "Codicologie et critique textuelle pour une etude de MS. Pamplona,
     Catedral 51," Scriptorium 32 [1978] pp. 221-30, plates 17-19,
     especially pl. 18e of the note in MS 207 on f. 46r: "Nota confundatur
     stacionarius qui me fecit deturpari librum alicuius probi uiri").
     Evidence of early use includes: table of contents added on ff.
     133r-135v; divisiones and distinctiones added in a semi-cursive hand;
     marginal notes suggesting a later collation of the text. Belonged to
     the Cistercian monastery of Royaumont in the diocese of Senlis:
     inscription of the 14th century on f. ii verso "Iste liber pertinet
     monasterio Regalismontis ordinis Cisterciensis siluanetensis diocesis"
     (noted by J. Leclercq, "Textes et manuscrits cisterciens dans les
     bibliotheques des Etats-Unis," Traditio 17 [1961] p. 164). Belonged to
     Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 772, inscription on f. ii recto); his
     purchase from the Chardin Library, Paris (see Phillipps Studies, v. 3,
     p. 23). Collection of Albert May Todd (1850-1931; bookplate). Acquired
     by Henry Fletcher and presented to Yale in 1950.

     secundo folio: reducere. Si

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 40, no. 207.
     Exhibition catalogue, p. 193, no. 21.
               E. T. Silk, "The Fletcher Manuscript of St. Thomas on the
     'Sentences' of Peter Lombard," Gazette 25 (1950) pp. 60-62.
          C. E. Lutz, "Manuscripts Copied from Printed Books," Gazette 49
     (1975) p. 262 (reprinted in her Essays on Manuscripts and Rare
     Books
     [Hamden, 1975]).

     Barbara A. Shailor