The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.3.15
Manuscript Title

Glossed Kings

Alternative Title

Libri IV. Regum Glosati.

James Number 94
Century 12th13th
Physical Description

Text 30 lines to a page. Part I finely written. Initials, decorative in bright colours. On f.86b is the beginning of a sketch (xv ?) partly coloured in green and red of what may be a pomegranate: and below it in outline are the letters kphl vpton.

Provenance

Given by Whitgift. On f.2b at top, in red, is Liber scē marie de bildewas.

Religious House Buildwas, Shropshire, Cistercian Abbey
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 33.5 x 24.5
Folio 103 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

Collation : a4 | i8-xi8? (wants 4-8) | A16 (+ 16*).

Notes

Loose blank fragment of velum perhaps used as mark between f.20 & f.21 not photographed.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.3.15/manifest.json
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Contents

I. f.1b Capitula: no heading, they extend over the first two books
Duo filii heli ophni et phinees.
XCVIII. Indignatur dominus contra israel etc.
OR. [bar through right leg of R]
f.2b Isid. Helchana possessio dei
f.3 Inc. prefatio s. ieronimi in libro Regum
No gloss.
f.4 Text
Gloss L. Arimathia interpretatur excelsa duo.
R. Ieroboam misericors.
Lib. iv. ends f.86a.

II. f.87 Cent. xiii, four columns to a page
Hic incipiunt interpretationes nominum hebreorum incipiencia per a litteram.
Aaz apprehendens.
Zuziim consiliantes eos uel consiliatores eorum.
See Beda, III. 371: ed. Colon. 1688.

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. 37, pp. 189-94

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