Uppsala, University Library, C 134. Hugo de Sancto Caro, <hi rend="italic">In historiam scholasticam; In XII prophetas</hi> Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Uppsala University Library C 134 1233–1248, Paris (Finland(?) / Sigtuna, Sweden) Hugo de Sancto Caro, In historiam scholasticam; In XII prophetas

Fol. 1r: Medieval ownership marking (see below) and a note (saec. XVII). (Fols. 1v–2v are blank.)

Fols. 3r–94r: Hugo de Sancto Caro, <hi rend="italic">In historiam scholasticam</hi>. Cf. Stegmüller, RB, 3607–3626; Kaepelli 1988.

[3r] Ecclesiasticus xxix[,33] transi hospes orna mensam ... [94r] ... par lux dux urbs cruce petrum. Expliciunt historie.

Fols. 94r–158v: Hugo de Sancto Caro, <hi rend="italic">In XII prophetas</hi>. Cf. Stegmüller, RB, 3700–3714; Kaepelli 1989.

[94r] Stabat super xii boues ex quibus tres respiciebant ad orientem ... [158v] ... i. cor. ult. [I Cor. 16.23] Omnis qui non amat dominum ihesum sit anathema manacatha(!) Amen. Expliciunt prophete xij. (Fols. 159r–161r are blank apart from some mostly faded notes on fol. 159r–v.)

Fol. 161v: A list of books. Although no owner is mentioned, it has been assumed the list contains books belonging to Thomas, bishop of Finland (d. 1248). The list includes pecia-notes. Edited and discussed in Schmid (1949) and Lehtinen (1983).

 Parchment 161 folios 18 24 12,5 (6 + 0,5 + 6) 18 Modern foliation in pencil (fols. 1–3 in ink) in the upper margin. I2 + IV10 + 4V50 + 12IV146 + (VII-1)159 + I161 Reclamants in the lower margin of the last page of a quire.

Prickings visible; in several quires the prickings for the lines are visible in both inner and outer margins.

One folio excised after 155 but no text is missing. Fols. 1–2 are loose. Fol. 114 is torn in the middle. There is noticeable variety in the quality and size of parchment. There are numerous, usually small, holes and staining.

 two pencil-ruled columns; usually 45–50 lines.

Petite gothic textualis by one main hand, writing around 1233–1248 in France, presumably Paris. A tempus ante quem non is supplied by the fact that Hugo's commentary on the minor prophets stems from 1230s, and a tempus post quem non from Bishop Thomas's death in 1248; Lehtinen 1983, 20. According to Lehtinen (1983, 54) another hand supplied fols. 88v–89v and 91v.

A few slightly younger hands make marginal notes. Some of these are almost completely faded.

A few parted initials in red and blue, along with regular red and blue lombards with flourishing. On fols. 11–20, space and guide-letters are provided, but the second-grade initials have been left unexecuted.

Rubrics, underlining and highlighting in red, but used sparingly.

Uncovered wooden boards. Both boards are loose and almost the entire outer half of the back board is missing. There is no cover at the spine. A piece is also missing from the upper part of the front cover. This and holes stained with rust marks on the opening leaves may indicate that the volume was once chained. Remnants of three clasps are visible on the front board. Sewn on at five sewing stations. Shelf-mark on a paper label pasted to the inside front cover. An older shelf-mark(?) ‘95’ drawn in ink on the inside front cover.

The manuscript features an early copy of Hugo de Sancto Caro’s <hi rend="italic">In historiam scholasticam</hi> and <hi rend="italic">In XII prophetas</hi>. Since the texts were written in Paris in the 1230s and the manuscript belonged to Thomas, bishop of Finland (d. 1248), who donated it to the Dominicans of Sigtuna, the manuscript can be dated roughly to 1233–1248. It was likely produced in Paris and principally written by one skilled scribe.

Fol. 161v contains a list of book purchased in Paris (before 1248) from a stationer. It is unknown whether the list refers to purchases made by Bishop Thomas or else by an a former owner of the book.

The manuscript came to the Dominican convent in Sigtuna from Thomas, bishop of Finland (d. 1248). Fol. 1r: ‘Iste est liber ffratrum predicatorum Siktonie, quem contulit eis felicis recordacionis dominus Thomas Episcopus finlandensis. Siquis hunc sine eorum licencia et consensu quocumque modo alienauerit, vel hunc titulum maliciose deleuerit, anathema sit’; Fol. 161v: ‘Liber fratrum predicatorum siktonie quem contulit eis felicis Recordacionis Dominus Thomas episcopus finlandensis’.

The dissolution of the Dominican convent occurred after the Reformation and its books were confiscated. The manuscript may have been given to Uppsala as a part of the donation of King Gustav Adolf II in 1621. Uppsala University Library’s shelf-mark ‘C 134’ on the inside front cover. A possible older shelf-mark ‘95’ also on the inside front cover.

 Thomas Kaepelli, Scriptores ordinis Praedicatorum medii aevi, vols. 1–4, Roma 1970–1993. A. I. Lehtinen, “Vulgatan Exemplar Parisiense ja Pariisin pecia-järjestelmän alkuvaiheet. Uusia tulkintoja piispa Tuomaan (k. 1248) käsikirjoituksesta”, Collegium Scientiae, Helsinki 1983. Margarete Andersson-Schmitt – Monica Hedlund, Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Uppsala: Katalog über die C-sammlung, vol. 2, Stockholm 1989, 161–162. Toni Schmid, ”Un Achat de livres de Thomas, evèque de Finlande (†1248)”, Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 1949, 383–387. Stegmüller, RB = Friedrich Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi, 1–11, Madrid 1940 [recte 1950]–1980. Encoding added