The catalog is a labor of love, and the collection was assembled (unlike
many in North America) to be more than just a set of pretty pages.
Tom Izbicki
At 11:06 AM 10/5/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Congratulations to Joe for putting this collection and catalogue together.
>That is what I call cultural heroism!
>
>Jussi Hanska
>
>
>At 02:40 PM 4.10.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>The following book, by one of the members of this list who would be too
>>modest to promote himself in the manner I intend to do, has been
>>mentioned before on this list but I believe it is significant enough to
>>have particular attention drawn to it. I have seen some of the
>>manuscripts in this superb private collection, assembled with the advice
>>of Leonard Boyle himself, and they are superb. This collection, via the
>>catalogue, could serve as a teaching tool for medieval Christianity,
>>since its components have all been carefully selected to illustrate
>>various aspects of medieval church life and thought--liturgical,
>>devotional, doctrinal etc. Beyond the the contents and topics included
>>in the various MSS, some of the codices themselves are quite unusual and
>>of remarkable significance. Hence my encomium. See _A Distinct Voice:
>>Medieval Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., for an article
>>titled "The Library that Father Boyle Built" that describes how the
>>Bergendal Colle!
>> ct!
>>ion was assembled. A formal description follows:
>>
>>Joseph Pope, _One Hundred and Twenty-Five Manuscripts: Bergendal
>>Collection Catalogue_ (Toronto: Brabant Holdings, 15 Duncan Street, M5H
>>3P9, 1999) Hardcover. Pp 400; 8 full-page colour ilustrations; quarto. $85.00
>>
>>The collection is quite probably the largest collection of its kind in
>>private hands in the Americas. The collection contains the earliest
>>extant copies of the sermons of both Eric of Auxerre and Smaragdus, the
>>earliest known missal of the Roman rite, the onl known copy in French of
>>the Moralia in Job by Saint Gregory the Great dated 1388, the earliest
>>extant copy ofthe sermons by Saint Leo the Great, a copy of the
>>Constitutiones Clementinae of c. 1320, a copy of the Liber Sextus of c.
>>1335, a copy of the rule of Saint Benedict of c. 1140. At least
>>thirty-five items are from the twelfth century or earlier. There are
>>possibly no more than four such collections held privately in
>>Europe. Before he died Father Boyle described the catalogue as "very
>>professional despite the intrusion of an understandable levity from time
>>to time."
>>
>>
>>Dennis Martin
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