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B.4.32

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Shelfmark B.4.32
Manuscript Title

Bede, Commentary on Genesis etc
Alternative Title

Beda Super Genesim, etc
James Number 146
Century 12th13th
Physical Description

Double columns of 29 lines. Fine hand, rather rough open-work initials.
Provenance

From Wardon. On f.2a is: liber Scē Marie de Wardonia. On f.1b is a table of contents: In hoc uolumine continentur hii libri. Beda super Genesim (added lib. 4). Albinus ad sigulfum presbiterum in questionibus libri geneseos. Tractatus cuiusdam de sacramentis.
Religious House Warden, Bedfordshire, Cistercian Abbey
Size (cm) 31 x 22
Folio 157 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

a2 (1 a slip) || i8-xviii8 xix10 xx4 wants 3, 4 blank.
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.4.32/manifest.json
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Contents

I. f.1 Inc. prefatio ven. Bede presbiteri in expositione libri geneseos ad accam episcopum (red and green capitals) (P.L. xci. 9)
Dilectissimo ac reuerentissimo acce antistiti
nostri memor in domino. Expl. prefatio.
f.2b Inc. liber primus uen. bede presb. super genesim
In principio -terram. Creationem mundi insinuans.
f.34 Liber II.
f.68 Liber III.
f.94b Liber iv.
Ends f.122, uere liberi eritis. Expl. liber quartus uen.Bede presb. super genesim.

II. f.122 Inc. prologus Albini ad sigulfum presb. in questiones libri geneseos
Dilectissimo in Christo fratri sigulfo.
-multiplicari faciat. Expl. prologus.
f.122b Inc. questiones et earum solutiones (P.L. c. 516)
Quomodo conuenit quod in genesi legitur requieuit deus.
Ends f.153b. Credo fideliter xpistum. Expl. quest. Albini super genesim et earum solutiones.

III. f.153b De sacramentis incipit
f.156b Dominus noster Ihesus Christus de hoc mundo ad inuisibilia
-id est ac si christum occiderit punietur

IV. f.157 A chronology in another hand
Ab adam ad diluuium mille sexcenti quinquaginta sex anni computantur....Ab adam ad christum quatuor milia centum septuaginta IIIIor. Nongentesimo quinquagesimo primo anno eadmundus rex martirizatur. [A marginal note in blacker ink says : Aliter Anno Octingentesimo Septuagesimo Sanctus Eadmundus celi palatia conscendit ut quidem affirmant.] Successit eadredus frater eius.
...
957 obiit rex eadredus · successit eadgarus frater eius.
964 S: eadeluuoldus consecratur.
975 ob. eadgarus · successit eaduuardus filius eius.
979 S. Eaduuardus martirizatur consilio nouerce sue eadelfrice · successit frater eius eadelredus fil. eadelfrice.
984 ob. eadeluuoldus ep. uuintoniensis ecclesie.
989 ob. S. dunstanus.
1012 Aelphegus martirizatur. Cantuaria capitur a danis.
...
1114 thamisia exiccata est et mare decem miliariis duobus diebus.
1117 3 idus dec. luna uersa est in sanguine.
Post octauo anno ob. Matildis secunda.
1120 bis uenit lumen ad sepulchrum eius.
1134 henricus ob. [marginal note, cut: .. 1)d.decembris apud
...uius anno regni
s)ui xxx · v].
Ends: 1162 anno ob. Theobaldus Cantuar. archiep. successit thomas cancellarius.

Bibliography

Bell, D., ed., The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 3 (London, 1992), Z26.14

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

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