The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.2.19
Manuscript Title

Glossed Epistles of St Paul

Alternative Title

Epistolae Pauli Glosatae.

James Number 62
Century 12th13th
Physical Description

Text 15 lines. Beautifully written. A good initial, blue, green, and red, to each Epistle: no gold. There are several hands, the best being that which wrote quires 17-20, ff.130-162. One fly-leaf is a fragment of a leaf of a large MS. of the Acts (cc. xiii, xiv.) of cent. xiii. [Back flyleaves incl. printed pages from Ludovici Buccaferreae, Explanatio libri I. Physicorum Aristotelis (Venice 1558) 58-59]

Provenance

Given by Nevile. at the bottom of f.2 is (xv) christus dominus noster Joh. Thorp. At the end is Vas fedum corrumpit aquas Iohannes Maynarde (xvj.)Leue the lowest prise or not for stephen batman...s / thomas beckats psalter [St Albans. Probably 1151-1154. cf BM Add. Charters 19590. BM Roy MSS. 2A.X. and Emm, 2.4.4 Pemb (N. Ker)]

Religious House St Albans, Hertfordshire, Benedictine Abbey
Donor Neville [Nevile], Thomas (c. 1548–1615), College Head and Dean of Canterbury
Size (cm) 29 x 21.5
Folio 229 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

a4 | I8 (wants 1, 2) XXVII8 XXVIII6 (+ 1) XXIX4.

Notes

[Back flyleaves incl. printed material from Ludovici Buccaferreae, Explanatio libri I. Physicorum Aristotelis (Venice 1558) pp. 58-59]

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.2.19/manifest.json
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Contents

Prologues. 1. f.1 Primum queritur quare post euangelia
-manentem substantiam.
2. f.2 Romani sunt qui ex iudeis
-et concordiam cohortatur.
ff.2, 3 (3, 4) are blank.
Begins imperfectly:
dei in eo reuelatur ex fide in fidem (Rom. i. 17).

Bibliography

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

Bishop, T. A. M., 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts I', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 1 (1949-53), 432-41, at 435

de Hamel, C., Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge, 1984), p. 56

Thomson, R. M., Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey, 1066-1235, 2 vols. (Woodbridge, 1982), pp. 28-30, 47, no. 10

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