The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.1.14
Manuscript Title

Glossed Deuteronomy

Alternative Title

Deuteronomium Glosatum.

James Number 13
Century 13th
Physical Description

Text 16 lines, gloss 40 lines: 2 and 3 columns to a page. Red, blue and green initials.

Provenance

Given by Whitgift. Probably from Buildwas. [Ker (1964) rejected Buildwas, but Sheppard (1997) re-established the volume as from Buildwas having belonged to Master Robert Amiclas]

Second Folio ad nos
Religious House Buildwas, Shropshire, Cistercian Abbey
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 25.5 x 18
Folio 98 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

i8-xi8 xii10.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.1.14/manifest.json
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Contents

f.1 xvth cent. inscription partly cut off: Incipit liber deuteronomij
Text. Hec sunt uerba.
Gloss L. Inter pharam etc.
R. Rabanus. Hec sunt uerba etc. principium deuteronomii titulus esse uidetur.
Ends f.97
followed by two extracts from Ambrose (de fuga seculi) on the cities of refuge.
f.98 blank: rust-mark near the middle

Bibliography

Jackson, D., Morgan, N. and Panayatova, S. (eds.), Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge : A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part 3, France, vol 1, c.1000-c.1250 (London, 2015), vol 1. no. 21.

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

Sheppard, J. M., The Buildwas Books: Book Production, Acquisition and Use at an English Cistercian Monastery, 1165-c.1400, Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications 3rd ser. 2 (Oxford, 1997), no. 35, pp. 182-5.

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