f.1 Inc. Epistola ad romanos prima (no prologue)
Gloss. Pro altercatione scribit romanis etc. (Top).
Paulus hebraice quietus etc. (col. R),
Ihū christi. alterum pro iudeis etc. (col. L.).
f.30 Argumentum epist. 1. ad corinthios
Chorinthii sunt achaici.
2 Cor. f.56, Gal. f.70, Eph. f.78, Phil. f.85b, Col. f.90b, 1 Thess. f.95, 2 Thess. f.99, 1 Tim. f.102, 2 Tim. f.187, Tit. f.110, Philem. f.112, Heb. f.115. Ends f.131.
Followed by paragraph:
Qui reddis iniquitates patrum filiis -progeniem.
Greg. Cum scriptum sit quid est quod inter uos parabolam uertitis
-ut non cum hoc mundo dampnemur.
Si quis autem edificat, etc. Sepe per aurum sapientia designator -electorum numero sociari (f.131b).
Then, in a contemporary hand, a list of books.
epistolas pauli. / Lucam. / Iohannem. / Ecclesiasten. / Cantica canticorum. / Apocalipsim. / Epistolas canonicas. / Tobiam. / Sacramenta Iuonis. / Librum cintillarum. / Teodulum glosatum. / Exempla uersificandi. / Tractatus de scientia lune. / Tabulam gerlandi. / Tabulam Rimachie. / Glosulas petri maiores et minores. / Glosulas de Iuuenali.
The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
| Shelfmark | B.1.6 |
|---|---|
| Manuscript Title | Glossed Epistles of St Paul |
| Alternative Title | Pauli Epistolae Glossatae. |
| James Number | 5 |
| Century | 12th13th |
| Physical Description | Text 18 lines, gloss 47 to full page. The initials are mostly red, with coarse and curious line ornaments. |
| Provenance | Given by Abp Whitgift: his arms are on the cover. |
| Second Folio | fidem uestram |
| Religious House | Buildwas, Shropshire, Cistercian Abbey |
| Donor | Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity |
| Size (cm) | 27.5 x 19.5 |
| Folio | 131 ff. |
| Material | Parchment |
| Language | Latin |
| Collation | a8-q8, r4 (wants 4). |
| IIIF Manifest URL |  https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.1.6/manifest.json |
| Online Since | 26/08/2014 |
Contents
Bibliography
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. 50, pp. 250-5 + fig. 32
Sheppard, J. M., 'Some Twelfth-Century Monastic Bindings and the Question of Localization', in Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, ed. L. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1992 (London, 1995), pp. 181-98, at pp. 194, 198 n. 39
Thomson, R. M., Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England: the Ending of 'Alter Orbis' (Red Gull Press, 2006)
