Sentences- Med MS 7B

Peter Lombard, Sentences. Single folio on vellum. England, ca. 1275: 328 x 218 mm, written area 200 x 125 mm. Double column, 50 lines. Decoration: four multi-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork decoration rubricated headings and marginal chapter numbers in red and blue. Abundant marginal glossing in a fourteenth-century English hand. Provenance: from a manuscript owned by Edward Walmsley (hissale, Marc 1795), Nell and Charles Wheeler (their sale, New York, 29 July 1919 lot 593), and C Lindsay Ricketts (d. 1941; see De Ricci, Census, 1 p. 646, no. 185, his sale Parke-Berne, NYC, 24 February 1929 lot 280). This leaf sold at Sotheby’s 22 June 1982 lot 25 (to Ralph Hanna), re-sold 17 June 1997 lot 16. The manuscript was already missing leaves by 1910, for John Frederick Lewis acquired fragments at that time (now Philadelphia, Free Library MS Lewis XIII:373).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/medievalmanuscript/1014/thumbnail.jp