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<dl><dd>144 leaves : 193 x 132 (137 x 88) mm</dd>
<dd>Author's name from Steiner, A. Guillaume Perrault and Vincent of Beauvais. Speculum, vol. 8, no. 1 (Jan., 1933) pp. 51-58. Sometimes attributed Humbert of Romans, Vincent of Beauvais, or Thomas Aquinas</dd>
<dd>Title from incipit (2₁ recto).</dd>
<dd>Date from colophon (18₆ verso); place based on analysis of script.</dd>
<dd>Ms. codex</dd>
<dd>In Latin</dd>
<dd>Secundo folio: Ista su[n]t capitula huius operis infra scripti diuisi i[n] sex partes qua[rum] viz ..</dd>
<dd>Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 144 (foliated [5], i-Cxxxvii, [2]) + iii (modern paper) ; 1⁴ 2-14⁸ 15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18⁸ ; horizontal catchwords in brown or red ink frames in lower margin of final versos of each gathering. Contemporary roman foliation in red ink, upper outer corner of each leaf, from 2₂-18₆.</dd>
<dd>Layout: Two columns, 31 lines below the top line. Bounding and ruling lines in blind and light brown ink. Pricking in outer margins</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in a gothic bookhand with red rubrics</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Nine-line initial on 2₁ in interlocking blue and red. Two- and three-line initials rubricated throughout in alternating blue and red. Capital strokes in yellow. Capitula in blue, red, and black.</dd>
<dd>Binding: 19th-century brown goatskin with the author (listed as Humbert) and title stamped in gilt on the upper cover ("Humbertus de Institutione Religionis.") and the date stamped in gilt on the lower cover ("Liber. M.S. MCCCLXXX.")</dd>
<dd>Origin: Written in Italy or Southern France in 1380.</dd>
<dd>Provenance: Early/contemporary marginalia throughout. Ca. 19th-century inscription on 1₁ recto attributing the work to Humbert of Romans. BPL embossed stamp on 1₁ recto. Purchased by Theodore Parker in Rome, 1844, according to an inscription on the front flyleaf verso.</dd>
<dd>Acquired by the BPL in Oct., 1861 via the Theodore Parker bequest</dd>
<dd>Call number: MS q Med. 260</dd>
<dd>Former call number: MS B.144.6</dd>
<dd>Cataloged 20170707</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed 20171108</dd>
<dd>Will not digitize 20171109</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Education -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Massachusetts -- Boston</div>
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Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271</div>
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