The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.1.34
Manuscript Title

Glossed Acts

Alternative Title

Actus Apostolorum Glosati

James Number 32
Century 13th
Physical Description

Text 14 lines, gloss 37. Well written: a very fine initial on f.3, mostly red, blue and gold, with green foliage: excellent in effect.

Provenance

Given by Whitgift (?). On f.1b in red is liber sce marie de Byldewas.

Religious House Buildwas, Shropshire, Cistercian Abbey
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 23 x 16
Folio 111 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

12 (wants 1) a8-o8 (wants 6, 8).

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.1.34/manifest.json
Online Since 15/07/2014

Contents

f.2 Prol. Lucas medicus
Marg. Rabanus et beda magistri necessarii in expositione et glosa magister albericus.
Text f.3.
Gloss. L. Rabanus. Feci .i. scripsi.
R. Rabanus. Non omnia dicente iohanne.
Gloss ends f.110b. martyrio coronatus est.

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. 24.

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

Schipper, W., ‘”Unpublished” Commentaries by Hrabanus Maurus’, Journal of Medieval Latin, 27 (2017), pp. 223-301, esp. p. 241 and plate 2

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. 49, pp. 247-50

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