Fabr. 21 2°: Ricardus de Bury, Philobiblon

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Fabr. 21 2°: Ricardus de Bury, Philobiblon

Parchment, 36 ff. (3×VI), ca. 29,5 × 21,5 cm; 14th century

The text of the Philobiblon is copied on f. 1-33r. The remaining pages are ruled, but blank. The last leaf of the third quire has been used as pastedown. The manuscript was foliated only in recent times. The list of capitula on f. 1r include references to "folio" or "fo.", but numbers are lacking. The capitula are numbered 1-20 both on f. 1r and in the headings of text. Capitula, marginal catchwords, incipit and explicit are written in red. Space is left open for initials that were not added

The explicit refers to the author in the first person ("in manerio nostro", ”etatis nostre", ”pontificatus … nostri”), not to the scribe, and the date "the 24th day of January 1344" concerns the completion of the treatise, not to the copy Fabr. 21 2°

The manuscript has belonged to Marquard Gude (1635-1689), Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736), and Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768), Fabricius’ son-in-law and heir to his collection of manuscripts. The collection was bought as an ensemble by the University Library of Copenhagen in 1770. The entire collection of manuscripts of the University Library was incorporated into the Royal Library in 1938. - Fabricius informed his readers about his manuscript in the chapter on 'Richardus de Bury' in his Bibliotheca Latina Mediæ et Infimæ Ætatis and rightly described the codex as nitide exaratus. E. C. Thomas knew the the reference, but he was not able to localise it and left it in a group of "missing manuscripts"

Bibl.: J. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca Latina Mediæ et Infimæ Ætatis, I, Hamburg 1734, p. 843f. - The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, ed. Ernest C. Thomas, London 1888, p. lxxvi. - H. O. Lange, En middelalderlig Bibliofil, Aarbog for Bogvenner, IV, 1920, p. 25-45. – Riccardo da Bury, Philobiblon, ed. A. Altamura, Napoli 1954, p. 20f. & passim (siglum Hv). - Erik Petersen, Intellectum Liberare. Johann Albert Fabricius - en humanist i Europa. København 1998, p. 1049

Erik Petersen