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- Record Id:
- 032-001997435
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- 032-001997435
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x0001cf
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- Add MS 63853
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JOHN COLET, D.D.: commentaries on the Hierarchies of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite; written circa 1504-1510 by Peter Meghen, of Bois-le-Duc ('s Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands). Latin. Meghen also wrote Royal 1 D. xi-xv, 1 E. iii and 1 E. v for Colet. This manuscript was copied from Cambridge University Library MS. Gg.iv.26, which is partly Colet's autograph but is now incomplete. Add. 63853 is therefore the prime source for art. 2. Arts. 1 and 2 were printed in J. H. Lupton, Two Treatises on the Hierarchies of Dionysius by John Colet, D.D. (1869), from the manuscript in St. Paul's School, and art. 3 was printed in J. H. Lupton, Joannis Colet opus de Sacramentis Ecclesiae (1867) from the same manuscript. See 'Colet MSS. at St. Paul's', Notes and Queries (Jan.-June 1871), pp. 281-282, and J. B. Trapp, 'Notes on Manuscripts written by Peter Meghen' in The Book Collector (Spring 1975), pp. 80-96. Formerly owned by William Cecil, 1st Lord Burghley (b.1520, d.1598), sale-cat. 21 Nov. 1687, lot 59, and by the Dukes of Leeds (H.M.C., App. VII, 1888, p. 40). Formerly B.L. Loan 55(2).
Vellum; ff. i+141. Sec. fol. '[Ho]mines autem qui'. 270 x 180mm. Gatherings a-c8 d6 e-r8 s8 (lacks 7; last is pasted on to back cover). Catchwords on 13 of the 18 gatherings. Ruled in plummet 00D1 (J. Leroy, Les Types de Réglure des Manuscrits Grecs, Paris 1976). 1 col. 22 lines. Text space 184 x 112mm. Space left blank for initials. Titles written in a slightly later hand in red ink (not Colet's) and two or three corrections in a hand similar to Colet's. Binding of late 16th-cent. English calf, with Lord Burghley's garter arms on both covers.
1. ff. 1-28v. Commentarii in Caelestem D. Dionysii Hierarchiam, beg. '[C]ognosco tuam sublimem'. The supplement, '[D]eus immensum bonum
. . . diaboli potentiam fregit', printed in J. H. Lupton, Two Treatises, pp. 36-47 (Engl.) and 187-196 (Lat.) is on ff. 20-28v.
2. ff. 31-104v. Commentarii in Ecclesiasticam D. Dionysii Hierarchiam, beg. '[S]acra scriptura nos'.
3. ff. 106-140. De Sacramentis Ecclesiae, beg. '[A] deo patre per filium'.
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Dionysius, Areopagita: Peter Meghen, of Bois-le-Duc: John Colet, Dean of St Paul's: Commentaries on Hierarchies of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite by John Colet, copied by Peter Meghen: circa 1504-1510.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-001997435
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- 032-001997435
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1499
- End Date:
- 1510
- Date Range:
- c 1504-1510
- Era:
- CE
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- Custodial History:
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Osborne family; Dukes of Leeds: Owned.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley: Owned, 16th cent.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
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- Names:
- Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley
Colet, John, Dean of St Paul's
Meghen, Pieter, of 's-Hertogenbosch, c 1466-1540
Osborne, Family
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, theologian and philosopher, fl Late 5th century-Early 6th century