Hugh of St. Victor

Other Associations: Dionysius the Areopagite

Celestial Hierarchy IX 10, 11, commentary on

1185 - 1199

Contents: Original recto (now verso), " (pote)statibus, ubi alii superiores, alii inferiores constituti sunt … et primas, et medias, et ultimas"; original verso (now recto), "deest; et ante perfectum, quia eius plenitudo … Sed hic simil(iter)."

Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Script: Transitional script

Notes: Transitional Romanesque-Gothic bookhand, s. XII#^ex#; many abbreviations, one contemporary correction, line 4r; recto as mounted was verso in original codex; for a discussion of the original format of the ms of this fragment, see Fragmenta Manuscripta 071 Latin

Decoration: One initial, H, line 7r, six lines, 26 X 20, green

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 026

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta026_45

Parchment - 75 x 82 mm - Single column (probably of two) with 16 lines visible, 5 mm apart; ruling in leadpoint, rubrics on recto

Latin

manuscript fragment

England, Rochester?