Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 406

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  • Attested title :
    • Vita sancti Gregorii in duabus personis, videlicet magistri et discipuli, metrice exarata
  • Other label of the document :
    • Belgique, Brugge, Openbare Bibliotheek, Ms. 406
    • Bruges Public Library, Ms. 406
    • Bruges. Bibl. de la ville, Ms. 406
    • Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 406
    • Brugge. Hoofdbibliotheek Biekorf, Ms. 406
    • Brugge. Openbare Bibliotheek, Ms. 406
  • Held at : Bruges. Bibliothèque publique
  • Languages : Latin
  • Date of Origin :
  • Place of Origin :
  • Script :
    • gotische textualis ; early gothic script
  • Support Material : Perkament
  • Composition :
    • ii + 66 ff. + i
  • Dimensions :
    • 16 x 11 cm

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  • Manuscript 406 is a biography on the life of Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604), written as a conversation between master and student. It is written in late Carolingian style. The origin of the manuscript is unclear, the author and the place of origin are unknown. It was made around 1160-1180 and was owned by of Ter Doest Abbey. Part of the illumination of the text is the indication of the words of the master, signified with an ornamental letter M(agister), and the words of the student, indicated with an ornamental D(iscipulus). The manuscript also contains two black and red pen drawings. The first is a drawing of the master and the student, who are having the conversation about Pope Gregory I (Folio 2v). They are both holding scrolls with the first words they speak in the manuscript printed on it. The second is a drawing of Christ in Glory (Folio 63r). Christ is depicted as a teacher, with a kneeling monk at his feet. [Summary by Sarah Vanroye]

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  • Schmidt, Paul Gerhard, Eine metrische Fassung der «Vita Gregorii» des Johannes Hymmonides (MS Brügge 406, BHL 3644a), in: Aevum inter utrumque. Mélanges offerts à Gabriel Sanders, professeur émérite à l'Université de Gand cur. M. Van Uytfanghe - R. Demeulenaere, Steenbrugge-'s Gravenhage 1991 (Instrumenta patristica 23), 379-383
  • Devos, P., 'Le mystérieux épisode final de la Vita Gregorii de Jean Diacre', ('Analecta Bollandiana', 82), 1964, 355-381
  • Hoste, Anselm. De handschriften van Ter Doest. Steenbrugge: Sint-Pietersabdij, 1993
  • Le Loup, W. e.a., Vlaamse kunst op perkament: handschriften en miniaturen te Brugge van de 12de tot de 16de eeuw, Brugge: Stadsbestuur, 1981
  • Online catalogue description by Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Public Library Bruges). Online catalogusbeschrijving door Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge)

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  • Folio 66r bevat een 17de-eeuwse aantekening: 'Vita haec sancti Gregorii metrica est correcta et aucta, cui addita est prosa carmina explanans. Haec omnia fecit unus religiosus Dunensis, anno 1666, et seruantur apud fratrem Edmundum Schipman, priorem Dunensem tunc temporis. Ita est. Edmundus Schipman prior Dunensis. Actum 15 Maii 1667. Nauclerus ad alta. F. Edmundus'
  • De voorste twee schutbladen zijn afkomstig uit een 13de-eeuwse Latijnse grammatica, inc.: '... potest fit sit precedentis sillabe uel sequentis. R predictam regulam tenentes hanc'
  • Folio 66v blanco
  • Folio's 1r-2v bevatten een overzicht van de 87 hoofdstukken: 'Capituli sequentis opusculi'
  • Inc. prol. (f. 3r): 'Incipit vita sancti Gregorii in duabus personis, videlicet magistri et discipuli, metrice exarata. I. Discipulus. Cum omnis aecclesiasticae disciplinae profectus uerbo et exemplo eorum'. Inc. (f. 5r): 'Incipit vita sancti Gregorii. Ex Rome roseo prorupit flosculus orto / viuificis teretem qui replens fluctibus orbem / Exsatiat plebes per germinis alta fideles'; expl. (f. 62v): 'Et uoluisse bona eius dat gratia sola. Explicit vita S. Gregorii'. Inc. vervolg (f. 63r): 'Vita Deus rerum quem contremit omne creatum'; expl. (f. 65r): 'Quod manus est et idem iudex Deus et pater idem'
  • Tussen de voorlaatste en de laatste katern is een brede strook perkament, afkomstig uit een 12de-eeuws handschrift, ter versteviging ingebonden
  • Folio 65v bevat een hymne met muzieknotatie, inc.: 'Fortissime spirituum uniuerse carnis [Num. 16:22] Criste Iesu unice patris'

Bibliography

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