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HUMBERT OF ROMANS (c.1200-1277). De dono timoris , in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, 14th century
HUMBERT OF ROMANS (c.1200-1277). De dono timoris , in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, 14th century] The influential collection of exempla relating to ‘the gift of fear’, written by the former Master General of the Dominican Order (1254-1263), Humbert of Romans. PROVENANCE : (1) MAURICE BURRUS , no 30. Purchased from Arthur Lauria in 1950. CONTENT : Humbert of Romans, De dono timoris or Tractatus de habundantia exemplorum , ff.1-78. Intended to be used by preachers to illustrate their sermons, the approximately 300 moral examples were compiled by Humbert after his retirement to a Valencian convent following a long and successful career, during which he presided over the Order’s expansion in Europe and authored a number of works; De dono timoris proved popular throughout the medieval period and today over 80 manuscripts survive. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION AND CONDITION : 165 x 120mm. i+78+i, apparently COMPLETE . 26 lines of text in two columns, ruled space: 113 x 89mm, ILLUMINATED FOLIATE BORDER ON OPENING PAGE , with an escutcheon apparently left blank for an armorial (staining and some losses to the margins, most pronounced to the outer margins towards the centre of the text). ?17th-century velvet with later white-metal ornament featuring the Medici arms (the velvet significantly worn) with flyleaves from a choirbook of the same period; pastedowns from a ?14th-century German manuscript of Aquinas’ Commentary on the Sentences .