The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.2.15
Manuscript Title

Glossed Isaiah

Alternative Title

Isaias Glosatus

James Number 58
Century 12th13th
Physical Description

Text 17 lines to a page: 2 columns of gloss. Finely written.

Provenance

Given by Whitgift. At the top of f.1 in red is Liber monachorum scē Marie de Buldewas.

Religious House Buildwas, Shropshire, Cistercian Abbey
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 29.5 x 20
Folio 130 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

a8-q8 r4 (wants 3, 4).

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.2.15/manifest.json
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Contents

f.1 Prol. Nemo eum prophetas uersibus -diutius insultarent
Gl. Ieron. Sic ysaiam exponam.
Text begins f.1b.
Ends f.130b. Expl. ysaias propheta.
Gl. L. inpiorum ineffabili pena
R. uidere hec omnia meruerunt.

Bibliography

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. 41, pp. 211-15

Smalley, B., 'Les commentaires bibliques de l'époque romane: glose ordinaire et gloses périmées', Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 4 (1961), 15-22

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