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HUGO RIPELIN OF STRASBOURG O.P. (c.1210-1268): Compendium theologicae veritatis , with the prologues and additions of RAYMOND GAULTIER O.F.M. (? fl. 1411) and JEAN BARTHÉLÉMY O.F.M. (doc. 1446-1467) in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
HUGO RIPELIN OF STRASBOURG O.P. (c.1210-1268): Compendium theologicae veritatis , with the prologues and additions of RAYMOND GAULTIER O.F.M. (? fl. 1411) and JEAN BARTHÉLÉMY O.F.M. (doc. 1446-1467) in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, Paris, c.1470]290 x 109mm. i paper + ii + 342 + i + iii paper leaves: 1 6 , 2-43 8 , COMPLETE, catchwords in lower margins of final versos, signatures, original foliation beginning at 15 on f.15, 50 lines written in black ink in lettre batârde by two hands in two columns between four verticals and 51 horizontals, justification: 212 x 61-13-60mm, prickings for horizontals and verticals remaining on many leaves, glosses or additions by the second hand on many leaves, text capitals touched yellow, some rubrics underlined in red, paragraph marks in red or blue, running headings in red and blue, large initials in red or blue, EIGHT HISTORIATED INITIALS with staves of blue and burnished gold part fleur de lys flourished in red and black or blue, ONE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL with burnished gold staves on a ground of red and blue patterned with white with A BORDER TO THREE SIDES of acanthus, flowers and birds between gold disks on hairline tendrils (ink faded and wear to smaller initial f.1, some slight losses of flesh paint in initials, staining to ff.207-208, wear to margins). 18th-century French red morocco gilt (scuffed, upper joint splitting). PROVENANCE: 1. The manuscript can be localised to Paris: the apparatus of the Franciscan Jean Barthélémy was composed in Paris in 1467; the scribe Hugo Sellari did not add a year or place to his name -- Scripto per me hugonem sellarii. 28. octobris deo gratias , f.139v -- but had access to Barthélémy's own copy and papers: by 1469 Barthélémy had died in Paris and the Franciscan Convent there had seized his books. The style of the miniatures also supports a Parisian origin. The commissioner was not apparently armigerous: instead of a conventional charge, the shield, integral to the border on f.1, bears the initials E and P either side of a Z-shaped bracket above a tau cross. This might relate to a merchant's mark and the tau cross to the Antonite Order, whose badge it was. To have chosen this redaction, however, the patron must have been in close contact with the Franciscans and some of the additions are intended for preachers. Since the Compendium is usually found in more directly functional, unillustrated copies, he was possibly an educated layman, commissioning a gift for a clerical library. Frequent annotations, many in a 17th-century hand, show that the book continued to be studied, perhaps within a religious house. 2. Blue book stamp of interlaced CC in oval on ff.2 and 3v. 3. Michel de Léon (1727-1800), trésorier de France en la généralité de Provence : armorial bookplate inside upper cover. His notable library was dispersed after his death; the fonds Michel Léon in the Bibliothèque municipale at Marseille consists of local material acquired in 1837. 4. HSA B2589; Faulhaber, pp.39-41. CONTENT: Prologue of Jean Bartélémy, f.1: Opitulante altissimi gratia... magistro hugone argentinensi sacri ordinis predicatorum...egregius sacre theologie professor quondam religionis optime magister Raymundus galteri ordinis minorum conventus tholosam.. qui prefatum librum ampliavit...sacre theologie professor et indignus magister Jo. bartholomei ordinis minorum provincie burgundie custodie bisontinensis et conventus chariaci...additamentis completis addidi ipse bartholomei multa per ordine alphabeti... Completus est autem pro ultima sui additione parisius anno domini 1467... . Prologue of Raymond Gaultier, ff.1-2: Fons rigans agrum totius ecclesie...Et hec de prologo raymundi galteri et hugonis argentinensis dicta sufficiant . Hugo Ripelin of Strasbourg (de Argentina, Argentinensis), Compendium theologicae veritatis , as amplified by Raymond Gaultier and Jean Barthélémy, ff.2-293: Book I, on the Trinity, Veritatis theologice sublimitas... , with