12022-10-20T21:35:59-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52406361plain2022-10-20T21:36:01-07:00Elizabeth Palomino97f5cc41f822c98012020ee3f1612be0c7950d52The sewing and covering of a book. After the leaves of a manuscript were written and illuminated, they were assembled into gatherings known as quires and sewn together.
Binding Country: France? Language: Latin Assigned Date: s. XI Searchable Date Range: 1050 - 1099 Script:Caroline minuscule Number of texts: 1 Description:
Parchment - 325 x 213 mm - 2 columns of at around 35-38 lines; ruled in drypoint
Religious text
Binding: Contemporary, possibly original. Parchment case binding made from a reused bifolium with leather, alum-tawed split laced sewing supports. Some of the sewing supports are broken and missing.
The upper margin of the bifolium (now the fore-edge turn-in of the front cover) is trimmed with no loss of text, the edges of the cover are large enough to allow for turn-ins.
Contains text from Isidore of Seville’s Sententiae, Book 10.11 "De angelis" and a sermon titled "De misericordia" attributed to John Chrysostom, also known by its opening words: "Tria sunt quae in misericordiae opera."
12022-10-20T16:02:34-07:00MS C189 Former Owner31plain2022-11-25T06:55:59-08:00 University of Kansas Connection
Former owner: Alpha Loretta Owens (1877-1965) Born: Rockwell City, IA Died: Lawrence, KS
Owens’ family moved to Lawrence, KS after she finished high school.
Education:
University of Kansas - 1901
University of Kansas, MA - 1903
University of Chicago
John Hopkins University, PhD - 1929
Teaching Experience:
French professor at the University of Kansas ROTC
French professor and Head of the French Department at Baker University
Professor of Modern Languages, at Morris Harvey College in West Virginia (now the University of Charleston). She taught French, Spanish and German until her retirement in 1947.
Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
MS C189 is one of three manuscripts listed in the collection of Alpha Loretta Owens in the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada compiled by Seymour de Ricci with assistance from W. J. Wilson and published between 1935 and 1940. According to the Census, the three manuscripts were examined by Wilson in 1935. Therefore, MS C189 was purchased by Owens sometime before 1935. It is not known where and from whom she obtained the manuscript. There are no records on the origin of the manuscript or its previous owners. The binding is considered original in the Census.
In May 1966, the Kenneth Spencer Research Library purchased the manuscript from Book Nook. MS C189 is available for study at the Spencer Library in the Marilyn Stokstad Reading Room along with the other fragments featured on this site.
