The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.3.21
Manuscript Title

John Chrysostom, Homiliae XLI super Iohannem

Alternative Title

S. Iohannis Chrysostomi Homiliae Xli Super Iohannem. Latine.

James Number 100
Century 15th
Physical Description

Double columns of 34 lines. In a Roman hand. There are partial borders and nice initials (in a Flemish style) on ff.1, 1b.

Provenance

Given by Whitgift.

From Christ Church, Canterbury. Ingram, no.69. Iohannis Crisost. super Iohannis euuangelio. 2 fo. Amantium seculariter. I believe it to have been a book given by Prior William Sellyng (1472-94).

Second Folio Amantium seculariter
Religious House Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine Cathedral Priory (Christ Church)
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 32.5 x 23
Folio 182 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

18-118 126 138-238.

Contents

f.1 Prologue to the table
Paulo apostolo teste prime quam scribit ad chorinthios epistole xii. capitulo.
The Version, says the prologue, is the work of Franciscus Aretinus.
Table. Abstinencia -Christiani.
f.15 Table of the church-gospels here treated
Dedication.
f.16 Ad clarissimum uirum Cosmum Medicen. Florentinum in Iohannis Chrisostomi commentarii (sic) super Iohannis Evangelio Prefatio
Communis fere omnium opinio est, Cosme
-et ad hanc perficiendam et alia aggredienda.
Cosmus lector hortabitur.
f.18 Iohannis Chrisostomi commentarii super Iohannis Ewangelio prologus
Qui agonum certamina spectare consueuerunt.
Ends with Hom. xli. on John vi.
Gracia et benignita(te) d. n. I. C. per quem et cum quo patri gloria et spiritui sancto in sec. sec. Amen.
A slip of a well written MS. of cent. xiii is at the end.

Bibliography

James, M. R., The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, 1903), p. 513.

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

Morgan, N., and S. Panayotova, et al., ed., Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge : A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the the Cambridge Colleges. Part One, The Low Countries, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary 2 vols., (London, 2009), vol. 1, no. 36

Mynors, R. A. B., 'A Fifteenth-Century Scribe, T. Werken', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 1 (1949-53), 97-104.

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 326, pl. 312 [Volume one of two, the other being Cambridge, University Library, Ff.3.10; dated 1474]