The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.3.30
Manuscript Title

Glossed Jeremiah

Alternative Title

Jeremias Glosatus.

James Number 109
Century 12th
Physical Description

Text 17 lines, gloss 34 to a full page. Fine hand. Two good small initials to the prologues, with white beasts. Larger initial to text cut out.

Provenance

Given by Whitgift.

On f.2a. is the mark ·aa· From Christ Church, Canterbury. Perhaps one of the two copies catalogued among those of Becket’s books (Edwards, p. 82), or that among the Libri Radulfi Remensis p. 85. Jeremyas primus glosatus 2 fo incepcio libri Verba Jeremie

Second Folio Verba Ieremie
Religious House Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine Cathedral Priory (Christ Church)
Donor Whitgift, John (1530/31?–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of Trinity
Size (cm) 30 x 22.5
Folio 120 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

a8-p8.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.3.30/manifest.json
Online Since 29/02/2016

Contents

Prol. (1) Deus ad bene faciendum promptus
-de captiuitate qui tradidi.
(2) Hec etiam de uobis possumus intelligere
-que locutus sum facere eis.

At the bottom of f. 1a (blank) is JEREM'

The numbers of the chapters have been added in cent. xv.

Bibliography

Jackson, D., Morgan, N. and Panayatova, S. (eds.), Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge : A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part 3, France, vol 1, c.1000-c.1250 (London, 2015), vol 1. no. 29.

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

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 327, pl. 70 [datable between 1164 and 1170, written in France, probably Paris]

de Hamel, C., Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge, 1984), pp. 41, 43 [probably given to Christ Church, Canterbury by Thomas Becket]

James, M. R., The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, 1903), pp. 510, 513

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