Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 146

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Attested title :
- Dialogus Gregorii
Other Form of the Shelfmark :
- Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 146
- Bruges Public Library, Ms. 146
Held at : Bruges. Bibliothèque publique
Languages : Latin
Author : Grégoire I (pape, 0540?-0604)
Date of Origin :
- 1101 - 1300 (Source: Mmmonk)
- 12de-13de eeuw (Source: Mmmonk)
Place of Origin :
- Flandre
Script :
- gotische textualis
Support Material : Perkament
Composition :
- 103 ff.
Dimensions :
- 350 x 240 mm

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Data Source: Mmmonk

This late twelfth- of early thirteenth-century manuscript is a copy of the Libri quattuor dialogorum, written by pope Gregory I (r. 590-604). As the title indicates, the framework of the text is a series of dialogues between Gregory and a deacon named Peter. The subject of the dialogues were the lives of (more or less) contemporary religious persons in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, with a focus on the miracles they were involved in. In particular, the second book is wholly dedicated to Saint Benedict of Nursia, while in the second book the immortality of the soul is discussed. This work was one of the most widely read texts in the Middle Ages, and by far the most popular of Gregory's works. This is in part due to the popularity it enjoyed with the Benedictines for their founder's biography. The manuscript was possibly copied in the Ten Duinen or Ter Doest scriptorium. Each page holds two columns of text, with initials added and decorated in red ink. The original paste down, now detached from the back board and serving as the final leaf, holds a fragment of the commentary of Stephen Langton on the twelve minor prophets. Langton (d. 1228) was archbishop of Canterbury and one of the driving forces behind the Magna Carta. The leather binding is contemporary, and is one of the twenty surviving early Cistercian bindings held in the collection. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]

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Data Source: Biblissima

Online catalogue description by Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Public Library Bruges). Online catalogusbeschrijving door Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge)
Isaac, M.T., Les livres manuscrits de l'Abbaye des Dunes d'après le catalogue du XVIIe siècle (Livre - Idées - Société 4), Verviers: Gason, 1984
De Poorter, A., Catalogue des manuscrits de la bibliothèque publique de la ville de Bruges (Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques de Belgique 2), Gembloux: Duculot, 1934
Lieftinck, G.I., De librijen en scriptoria der Westvlaamse Cisterciënser-abdijen Ter Duinen en Ter Doest in de 12e en 13e eeuw en de betrekkingen tot het atelier van de kapittelschool van Sint Donatiaan te Brugge, Brussel: AWLSK, 1953
Hoste, Anselm. De handschriften van Ter Doest. Steenbrugge: Sint-Pietersabdij, 1993
van Belleghem, Doenja (ed.), De Duinenhandschriften : over de manuscripten van de cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen in het Grootseminarie Brugge en de Openbare bibliotheek Brugge, Brugge: Openbare Bibliotheek, 2016

Data Source: Mmmonk

Inc. (f. 1r): 'Quadam die nimiis quorumdam secularium tumultibus depressus'; expl. (f. 102r): 'si ante mortem Deo hostia ipsi fuerimus'
Folio 102v blanco
Folio 103 was oorspronkelijk het achterste dekblad. Het bevat een fragment van In duodecim Prophetas minores van Stephen Langton, inc. (f. 103r): 'Ossa duodecim prophetarum pullulant de loco suo nam corroborauerunt Iacob', expl. (f. 103v): 'In diebus Ieroboam filii Ioas regis Israel, Ieroboam interpretatur temporalitas. Quia'
Herkomst: Volgens Lieftinck 1953 is dit handschrift mogelijk afkomstig uit het scriptorium van Ter Doest of Ten Duinen
Ieder boek is voorafgegaan door Capitula