F-8bfm — Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Ob.6.II.2164-2173
- Identification: Identified; high identification confidence. The text matches Robert Holcot's Super Sapientiam Salomonis, the end of Lectio II and part of Lectio III in the Hagenau 1494 edition, scan pages n40–41. Distinctive connecting commentary agrees across the theological-virtues argument, the fourfold division of In simplicitate cordis querite illum, and the development about lending, selling, and giving the heart to God. Biblical quotations alone are not the basis for attribution.
- Transcription: The preserved image-only reading covers four cropped rows and is highly incomplete. A separate source-assisted record corrects its uncertain readings and adds selected front/back-cover passages. Both preserve gaps; no full-leaf transcription or accuracy score is claimed.
- Verification: A Codex reviewer inspected actual manuscript images and actual 1494 print images, using larger cached print crops for word comparisons. Three commentary passages were compared with source assistance. No human palaeographic review was performed, and identification confidence does not certify every reading or the physical reconstruction.
Catalogue information carried from Fragmentarium: “Unidentified theological treatise”, 1350–1400, Latin, Cursiva, parchment, one leaf, 375 × 220 mm, reused as the cover of a sixteenth-century printed-book collection. Date, script classification, and binding history were not independently assessed. The text is Holcot's Wisdom commentary.
Sources and coverage
The manuscript IIIF manifest supplies the cover photographs. The inspected images are cached extracts from canvas 1, front cover (_65A9190_1.jpg), lower text band; and canvas 3, back cover (_65A9187_1.jpg), lower and upper text bands. The cached strips were already rotated for reading. Their original pixel origin and scale were not independently recovered. The image-only record documents the packet crop and its verified parent checksum. Neighboring strips overlap and do not represent additional lines.
| Cached manuscript images | Actual scope |
|---|---|
image-001.png; c1_lo_s01.jpg–c1_lo_s03.jpg | Initial four-row crop and surrounding argument about acquired and theological virtues; Aristotle; assent, love, hope, and infused habits |
c3_lo_s00.jpg–c3_lo_s04.jpg | Superadded theological virtues, numbered replies, and fourfold division of the biblical lemma |
c3_up_s01.jpg–c3_up_s03.jpg | Context and partial lines on giving the heart, then lending/selling/giving and temporal prosperity |
The larger sideways c1_lo.jpg was also opened; it was not fully transcribed. The spine, pastedowns, turn-in strips, and the full cover-to-cover line sequence were not collated. Exact line counts and physical leaf reconstruction remain unverified.
The comparison edition is Robert Holcot, Super Sapientiam Salomonis, Hagenau, 1494, Sevilla copy, Inc.114, Internet Archive A336075. Its cached bibliographic metadata gives the title, creator, date, place, and holding copy. Full print images n39–41 were inspected for context and headings; the detailed comparisons used:
- n40, left column, crops
p40_a1.jpgandp40_a2.jpg: end of Lectio II, theological virtues and objections. - n40, right column, crops
p40_b0.jpgandp40_b1.jpg: visible Lectio III heading, response to the dubium, and fourfold division. - n41, left column, crop
p41_a0.jpg: heart given liberaliter, integraliter, perpetualiter, followed by lending/selling/giving.
These are print-image comparisons, not OCR-only checks. No OCR file, Google Books snippet, later edition, or secondary quotation was consulted for these comparisons. Scan indexes are not printed folio numbers.
Selected assisted readings
Rows count physical text rows from each crop's top, including clipped rows. Parentheses propose abbreviation expansions; ? marks doubt; [illegible] leaves unresolved image text. The full assisted record gives additional scoped rows and the actual exposure inventory.
The original packet image-001.png, also visible at the top of c1_lo_s02.jpg:
1 [cropped; illegible] 2 atitudine(m) determinat sufficient(er)? ar(istoteles) in mo- 3 ralibus suis. sed non facit mencio(n)e(m) 4 nisi de n(atur)alibus acquisitis? [cropped; illegible]
The red-underlined word on row 2 is an abbreviated Aristotle reference. Its reading is source-assisted. No deletion or insertion is securely identified.
From c1_lo_s03.jpg, continuing the front-cover argument:
1 sentire hiis que fides p(re)dicat de deo si 2 b(e)n(e) instruat(ur). Si(mili)ter deu(m) cognitu(m) p(otest) amare 3 sup(er) omnia et sperare q(uod) ille deus dabit 4 sibi vita(m) immortalem. Ergo ad ipsos? ac- 5 tus non est necesse ponere h(ab)itus infusos
From c3_lo_s00.jpg and c3_lo_s01.jpg, back-cover lower band:
c3_lo_s00:3 Et ideo ad istam consequenda(m) oportet c3_lo_s00:4 q(uod) homini sup(er)addant(ur) virtutes theologice c3_lo_s00:5 que ideo theologice dicu(n)t(ur) quia a solo c3_lo_s01:1 deo nobis infundunt(ur) [illegible] sola diuina relacio(n)e? c3_lo_s01:2 in sola sacra scriptura nobis tradunt(ur).
From c3_lo_s03.jpg and c3_lo_s04.jpg:
c3_lo_s03:3 meritoriam in p(rese)nti. s(cilicet) Rectitudo s(an)c(t)e co(n)- c3_lo_s03:4 versacionis. ibi. in simplicitate. Gratitudo c3_lo_s03:5 pie deuocionis. ibi. cordis. Sollicitu- c3_lo_s03:6 do discrete inquisicionis. ibi. querite. [bottom clipped] c3_lo_s04:2 Altitudo quiete co(n)templacionis. ibi. illum. c3_lo_s04:3 Circa primum notandum q(uod) simplicitas ista c3_lo_s04:4 debet esse cum prudencia. sicut dicitur Mt. x.
Row 1 of c3_lo_s04 repeats the preceding do discrete inquisicionis row and is not counted again. The manuscript's repeated ibi is visible; it has not been supplied from print.
Diagnostic comparison and variants
| Passage | Agreement with the 1494 print and limits |
|---|---|
Front-cover lower band, c1_lo_s01–03; n40 left | The question about theological virtues beyond acquired moral virtues is followed by Aristotle's account of happiness, then natural assent to faith's teaching, love of God, hope of immortal life, and the objection to positing infused habits. The extended wording and argumentative sequence agree. The manuscript begins Dubium est hic utrum, while print gives Primo potest esse dubium hic utrum. Print puts Aristoteles before sufficienter; the manuscript appears to reverse the order. Manuscript ille deus dabit corresponds to print deus dabit. |
Back-cover lower band, c3_lo_s00–04; n40 right | The explanation of superadded theological virtues, replies Ad primum / Ad secundum / Ad tertium, and four linked terms Rectitudo / Gratitudo / Sollicitudo / Altitudo agree. This is connecting exposition beyond the biblical lemma. Manuscript ad istam, nobis infunduntur, and in sola sacra scriptura differ from print ad illam, infunduntur, and in sacra scriptura. Manuscript hic intelligitur corresponds to print debet intelligi. Its longer Circa primum notandum quod simplicitas ista… differs from print Simplicitas autem illa…. |
Back-cover upper band, c3_up_s01–03; n41 left | Visible text includes cor humanum sibi dari tripliciter, integraliter perpetualiter, quod tu des libere cor tuum, quod vendas, dones. Mutuant, and serviunt pro temporali prosperitate. The print develops those terms in the same order, lending/selling/giving the heart. This supplies a distinct additional commentary passage. Crop-edge gaps remain unresolved; the print's missing words, including liberaliter where not visible in the selected manuscript span, are not represented as manuscript readings. |
The manuscript's uncertain relacione? is not silently changed to the print's revelatione. The inspected manuscript and print crops both appear to abbreviate homines. The Genesis numeral and full lectio endpoints are outside the checked passages. None of these differences establishes that the manuscript is a “better” witness or belongs to a particular recension.
Result and limits
The extended prose and sequence identify the text in Holcot's commentary, spanning the end of Lectio II and part of Lectio III in this edition, on Wisdom 1:1–2. Common quotations alone would be insufficient, but the linked theological question and response, fourfold division, and subsequent heart-giving development provide substantially more evidence. The historical originality of each component and the possibility of wholesale reuse in a compilation were not separately researched. Other commentaries were not directly collated; no-hit searches and unexamined alternatives are not exclusions.
Much of the front upper band, the spine, obscured margins, and remaining back-cover lines are outside this collation. Exact physical reconstruction, date, provenance, authorial recension, dependence, and witness novelty require their own evidence and are not certified by the identification.
A complete palaeographic collation and reconstruction of the concealed portions would extend the verified coverage.