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- Record Id:
- 040-002096528
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096514
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000122.0x00003c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172076826.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 22562
- Title:
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Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of the Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum (Lives and Sayings of the Fathers), an encyclopaedic work comprised of hagiographical writings on the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers of early Christianity. According to the manuscript's colophon (f. 158v), this copy of the text was written in 1449 by two scribes, Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud, sisters of the convent of St Margaret at Gouda. The colophon also states that the parchment for the volume was provided by Nicolaus de Wyt, prior of the Augustinian convent of St Michael Schoonhaven.
Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud are recorded as part of a group of seven nuns of St Margaret's who transcribed a manuscript Commentary on the Psalms in 1454 (now Gouda, Streekarchief Middenholland, Librije 159), which had subsequently come into the possession of the city library in Gouda by 1714. A list inscribed at the back of the volume indicates that it was one of at least 70 in the convent's collection (Elsevier, 'Aue Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi' (1852)).
Contents:
f. 1r-v: A description of the manuscript and its scribes, along with a transcription of the colophon, probably written in the hand of Samuel Weller Singer (b. 1783, d. 1858).
ff. 2r-158v: Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud; arranged in five books, beginning with a prologue, and ending with a colophon.
Decoration:
Large decorated initials in blue with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of each section of the text, the first with a full-page border in colours with foliate decoration (ff. 2r, 3r, 63v, 86r, 87r, 147r).
Initials in alternating blue and red ink. Paraph marks in blue and red ink. Marginal notes framed in red.
Rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096514
040-002096528 - Is part of:
- Add MS 22549-22566 : Samuel Weller Singer Manuscripts
Add MS 22562 : Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud - Hierarchy:
- 032-002096514[0014]/040-002096528
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100172076826.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1449
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1449
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Material: Parchment; paper (f. 1).
Dimensions: 228 x 150 mm (text space: 150 x 105 mm), written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 158 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 1 + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); f. 1 is a paper leaf mounted on a paper guard.
Catchwords. Quire signatures.
Script: Gothic, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, blind-stamped; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Gouda, The Netherlands.
The manuscript was written in 1449 by two sisters of the convent of St Margaret at Gouda, Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud, with parchment provided for them by Nicolaus de Wyt, prior of the Augustinian convent of St Michael, Schoonhaven: see the inscribed colophon, 'Expliciunt Deo laus omnipotenti-quinque libri de vita et conuersatione sanctorum patrum scripti per manus sororum Aue Trici et Gheeze Ysenoudi in festiuis diebus suis consororibus dilectis in memoriam earum. Finiti anno domini MoCCCCo XLIXo in festo decollationis sancti Johannis Baptiste ante summam missam. Et habebat ad hoc pergamenum sibi ex caritate prouisum de venerabili presbitero domino nycolao Wyt tunc temporis earundem patre spirituali et sibi ipsius spirtualiter ac in domino sat reuerenter dilectio...' (f. 158v).
Provenance:
The Convent of St Margaret's, Gouda: inscribed, 'Iste liber pertinet ad conuentum regularissarum inclusarum ad sanctam Margaretam in gouda' (f. 147r); probably listed as no. 7 ('quinque libri de vita et conversatione sanctorum patrum in uno volumine ligati in ligno') in the 1599 inventory of their collection (Middeleeuwsche Bibliotheken, ed. by Meinsma (1903), pp. 257-60).
Samuel Weller Singer (b. 1783, d. 1858): English author and scholar: in his possession by 1849, when he described the volume in an article for Notes and Queries and transcribed its colophon (Singer, 'What books did Otloh write?' (1849)).
Purchased by the British Museum at the sale of Singer's manuscripts, Sotheby's, 3 August 1858, lot 218, for £2 2s.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), pp. 673-74
Elsevier, 'Aue Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi', Notes and Queries, 5 (1852), 65-66.
Johan P. Gumbert, The Dutch and their Books in the Manuscript Age, The Panizzi Lectures, 1989 (London: British Library, 1990), fig. 21.
Koenraad Oege Meinsma, Middeleeuwsche Bibliotheken (Zutphen, 1903), pp. 257-60.
Samuel Weller Singer, 'What books did Otloh write?', Notes and Queries, 1 (1849), 113-14.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 266.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)