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Beinecke MS 347 Spain [?], s.XV^^in
Hugh of St. Victor, Expositio in regulam S. Augustini
1. ff. 1r-13v [Heading in upper margin, slightly later hand:] Comentum
domini hugonis de sancto victore super regulam beati agustini [sic].
[text:] Hec precepta que subscripta sunt ideo regula appellatur quia
videlicet in eis nobis recte...Immiscentes temporibus tempora
terroribus blandimenta//
Hugh of St. Victor, Expositio in regulam beati Augustini; PL
176.881-924. Text breaks off on f. 13v in the middle of ch. 11
(PL 176.920-21). See R. Goy, Die Ueberlieferung der Werke Hugos
von St. Viktor (Stuttgart, 1976) pp. 457-78; Beinecke MS 347 not listed.
2. f. 14r //pervagacio de loco ad locum tepiditas operandi tedium cordis
murmuracio detraccio uaniloquia et blasphemia Que uincitur per studium...
rogemus tam ut de hijs omnibus liberati nos omnipotens deus qui regnat In
eternum amen. f. 14v blank
Concluding passage (25 lines) of unidentified text on vices and their
remedies.
Paper (thick; watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Arc 791 and
799), ff. 14 (modern foliation 115-128), 395 x 283 (290 x 185) mm. Written
in 2 columns, 52 lines. Frame-ruled in crayon.
Collation impossible, since all leaves have been repaired extensively
in gutter. Catchwords, f. 12v, under inner column, enclosed in rectangle,
verso.
Written in a neat running script by one person.
Blue and red divided initial, 5-line, on f. 1r, with elaborate
penwork flourishes in purple and red. Smaller initials, 4- to 3-line, blue
with red penwork designs, alternate with red and purple.
All leaves worn and repaired.
Disbound; boxed.
Written probably in Spain toward the beginning of the 15th century; early
modern provenance unknown. Formerly part (ff. 115-128) of a larger manuscript.
Presented to the Beinecke Library in 1968 by Thomas E. Marston.
Barbara A. Shailor