JOHN CASSIAN (360-435), Collationes , in Latin, leaves from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
JOHN CASSIAN (360-435), Collationes , in Latin, leaves from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [northern France or Rhineland, mid-12th century] 335 x 235mm. Two imperfect bifolia and a strip of a leaf, two columns with 37 lines written in a fine Romanesque bookhand in brown ink ruled in blind, rubrics and chapter numbers in red, FOURTEEN LARGE FOLIATE INITIALS consisting of white vine scrolls drawn in red ink, the interstices and background panels in blue and green, remnants of two further initials (recovered from a binding with consequent creases and glue residue, one bifolium with one column of text cropped, both bifolia with smaller losses at the borders, some staining and wear affecting one leaf in particular). In an archival folder. The text of the bifolia is consecutive, so these must be the central two bifolia of a gathering; their four leaves contain the end of chapter 36 -- '[...]adpresens sapienter obtegitur' and chapter 37 of Collatio XVI, followed by the capitula of Collatio XVII and chapters 1-2; chapters 3-8; 9-12; and 13-15 respectively (corresponding to Migne, Patrologia Latina , vol.45, cols.1042A--1061A), ending '[...] nos vehentissme'. Collation XVII includes a dialogue between Germanus and the Abbot Joseph, 'On Making Promises'. The Collationes patrum (or 'Conferences') of the early Christian monk and mystic theologian John Cassian served as a manual in the early medieval West for the hermetic practices associated with eastern monasticism. Inspired by the author's travels in Palestine and Egypt, the Collationes are a series of 24 conferences based on advice imparted from Egyptian abbots treating specific and potentially challenging aspects of an ascetic life. THE PRESENT LEAVES COME FROM ONE OF THE MOST LAVISHLY DECORATED COPIES OF THE TEXT TO SURVIVE : almost every chapter, even those which consist of fewer than 20 words (chapter 6), are treated equally with an eight-line initial; only ch. 14 seems to have been omitted by accident and has just a two-line red initial.
JOHN CASSIAN (360-435), Collationes , in Latin, leaves from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
JOHN CASSIAN (360-435), Collationes , in Latin, leaves from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [northern France or Rhineland, mid-12th century] 335 x 235mm. Two imperfect bifolia and a strip of a leaf, two columns with 37 lines written in a fine Romanesque bookhand in brown ink ruled in blind, rubrics and chapter numbers in red, FOURTEEN LARGE FOLIATE INITIALS consisting of white vine scrolls drawn in red ink, the interstices and background panels in blue and green, remnants of two further initials (recovered from a binding with consequent creases and glue residue, one bifolium with one column of text cropped, both bifolia with smaller losses at the borders, some staining and wear affecting one leaf in particular). In an archival folder. The text of the bifolia is consecutive, so these must be the central two bifolia of a gathering; their four leaves contain the end of chapter 36 -- '[...]adpresens sapienter obtegitur' and chapter 37 of Collatio XVI, followed by the capitula of Collatio XVII and chapters 1-2; chapters 3-8; 9-12; and 13-15 respectively (corresponding to Migne, Patrologia Latina , vol.45, cols.1042A--1061A), ending '[...] nos vehentissme'. Collation XVII includes a dialogue between Germanus and the Abbot Joseph, 'On Making Promises'. The Collationes patrum (or 'Conferences') of the early Christian monk and mystic theologian John Cassian served as a manual in the early medieval West for the hermetic practices associated with eastern monasticism. Inspired by the author's travels in Palestine and Egypt, the Collationes are a series of 24 conferences based on advice imparted from Egyptian abbots treating specific and potentially challenging aspects of an ascetic life. THE PRESENT LEAVES COME FROM ONE OF THE MOST LAVISHLY DECORATED COPIES OF THE TEXT TO SURVIVE : almost every chapter, even those which consist of fewer than 20 words (chapter 6), are treated equally with an eight-line initial; only ch. 14 seems to have been omitted by accident and has just a two-line red initial.
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