Two leaves from a large English manuscript of Petrus Riga, Aurora, in the first redaction of Aegidius of Paris, in Latin verse, on parchment [England, second half of fourteenth century (c. 1375)] Two single leaves, each with 32 lines in a small and rounded English gothic hand much influenced by secretarial forms (with parts of the text for Exodus, lines 149-212 of that part of the poem, and for I Kings, lines 185-248 of that part of the poem), paragraph marks in red or dark blue, rubrics in red and set off in outer margin with paragraph marks there, running titles in main hand in red, four larger initials in dark blue with ornate red penwork with whip-like extensions in margins, one leaf torn away at extremity of foot (without affect to text, and probably once with a pasted on medieval repair which has since fallen away), the same leaf with tape marks in upper margin from last mounting, a few small spots, else in excellent and fresh condition, each approximately 285 by 198mm. Provenance: 1. The large and impressive parent manuscript of these leaves was owned by the Grosvenor family, Dukes of Westminster; their sale Sotheby's, 11 July 1966, lot 229 (when it had 267 leaves but was already missing a gathering and about 13 other leaves). 2. Francis Edwards, bookseller, who acquired it in the Sotheby's sale, before removing three damaged leaves that had had their initials cut out, and advertising the rest of the codex in a number of his subsequent catalogues. 3. At some time later more leaves were removed from the main codex, or it was completely dispersed, perhaps in North America. One from the collection of Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017) appeared as Quaritch cat. 1348, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no. 96, and other leaves now reside in Marquette University in Milwaukee as donations of Dr. and Mrs John Pick, as well as the University of South Carolina, their early MS. 125. 4. These leaves from the collection of Roger Martin (1939-2020) of Grimsby. Text: This text, alongside the Bible and the works of Peter Lombard, was one of the fundamental textbooks used in the thirteenth-century universities of France and Italy. The author was a canon of Rheims cathedral, and most probably died in 1209. It is a distillation of the historical passages of the Bible in verse, with a commentary and allegorical discussion. The leaf now in the University of South Carolina importantly reveals that the text here is the first redaction by Aegidius of Paris, composed c. 1200 (see P.E. Beichner, Aurora: Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata, 1965).
Two leaves from a large English manuscript of Petrus Riga, Aurora, in the first redaction of Aegidius of Paris, in Latin verse, on parchment [England, second half of fourteenth century (c. 1375)] Two single leaves, each with 32 lines in a small and rounded English gothic hand much influenced by secretarial forms (with parts of the text for Exodus, lines 149-212 of that part of the poem, and for I Kings, lines 185-248 of that part of the poem), paragraph marks in red or dark blue, rubrics in red and set off in outer margin with paragraph marks there, running titles in main hand in red, four larger initials in dark blue with ornate red penwork with whip-like extensions in margins, one leaf torn away at extremity of foot (without affect to text, and probably once with a pasted on medieval repair which has since fallen away), the same leaf with tape marks in upper margin from last mounting, a few small spots, else in excellent and fresh condition, each approximately 285 by 198mm. Provenance: 1. The large and impressive parent manuscript of these leaves was owned by the Grosvenor family, Dukes of Westminster; their sale Sotheby's, 11 July 1966, lot 229 (when it had 267 leaves but was already missing a gathering and about 13 other leaves). 2. Francis Edwards, bookseller, who acquired it in the Sotheby's sale, before removing three damaged leaves that had had their initials cut out, and advertising the rest of the codex in a number of his subsequent catalogues. 3. At some time later more leaves were removed from the main codex, or it was completely dispersed, perhaps in North America. One from the collection of Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017) appeared as Quaritch cat. 1348, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no. 96, and other leaves now reside in Marquette University in Milwaukee as donations of Dr. and Mrs John Pick, as well as the University of South Carolina, their early MS. 125. 4. These leaves from the collection of Roger Martin (1939-2020) of Grimsby. Text: This text, alongside the Bible and the works of Peter Lombard, was one of the fundamental textbooks used in the thirteenth-century universities of France and Italy. The author was a canon of Rheims cathedral, and most probably died in 1209. It is a distillation of the historical passages of the Bible in verse, with a commentary and allegorical discussion. The leaf now in the University of South Carolina importantly reveals that the text here is the first redaction by Aegidius of Paris, composed c. 1200 (see P.E. Beichner, Aurora: Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata, 1965).
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