The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

1. Prosperi Epigrammata. (P.L. LI. 497.)
f.1 In red capitals
IN NOMINE DEI SVMMI.
In green and red and black capitals,
Haec agustini ex sacris epigrammata dictis.
Titles throughout in red rustic capitals. Initials to the poems alternately red and green. Initials to the lines in red.
Ends with
f.31b Versus Prosperi ad coniugem suam (l. c. 611)
Age iam precor mearum comes in remota rerum.
A red capital K is put in the margin at irregular intervals: it occurs eight times, (cf. O.1.18).
Ends (f.33b)
Vt caro non eadem tantum sed mens quoque nobis.
A late hand (xvi) has added the last line, and Finis huius libri.
There are a good many interlinear glosses, but I have seen none in English: on f.32a are a few in French.

2. In another hand, resembling that of B.4.27: fine initial, Catonis Disticha.
f.34 Inc. prefatio libri sequentis
In green and red capitals.
Cum animadverterem quamplurimos grauiter in uia morum errare.
-libenter amorem ferto.
With interlinear Latin glosses.
Two xvith cent. notes on Cato follow.
f.35 Liber primus
Sideris est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt (in green and red capitals: a good initial).
f.36b Liber secundus
f.38a Liber tertius
Four lines in this supplied by a later hand (xii) in the margin (f.39).
f.39a Liber quartus
Ends imperfectly f.40b
Suspectus caueas ne sis miser omnibus horis.
The hand of cent. xii adds nine lines in the lower margin.
Nam timidis et suspectis aptisima mors est.
Ending
Hoc breuitas fecit sensus coniungere binos.
(See on this MS. Wiener Studien, V.166.)

3. Then should follow the leaf now numbered 43.
Versus Bedae presbiteri de Die iudicii. (P.L. XCIV.633.)
Inter florigeras fecundi cespitis herbas.
(In red and black capitals: fine initial.)
Then follows f.42, then f.41. The poem ends imperfectly
Candida uirgineo simul inter et agmina flore.
The hand of cent. xvi adds the remaining thirteen lines, and also the beginning of the next article.

4. f.46 Prudentii Tituli historiarum. (P.L. LX.89)
Beginning imperfectly in the fourth section
Risit sarra casa sobolis sibi gaudia sera.
The title and opening lines supplied on a paper leaf of cent. xvi.
The titles are in capitals.
After f.49 should follow the leaf numbered 44 which completes the text, ending
Et septem potuit signacula pandere solus.
Expliciunt tituli historiarum.
The verso is blank.

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

James, Catalogue, pl. I [although labelled as B.4.27 this is a plate of O.2.31]

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no. 95.

Ker, N. R., and A. G. Watson, Supplement to Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 15 (London, 1987), Canterbury.

Gneuss, H., Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: a List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 241 (Tempe, AZ, 2001), no. 190 [s. x/xi, origin Christ Church, Canterbury]

Gneuss, H. and Lapidge, M., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Biographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), no. 190

Keynes, S., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Other Items of Related Interest in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 18 (Binghampton, NY, 1992), no. 15 + pl. XV.

Temple, E., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles 2 (London, 1976), no. 30(vi)

James, Catalogue, pl. III.

Bishop, T. A. M., 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts VII', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 3 (1959-63), 413-23.

Ohlgren, T. H., ed., Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts: an Iconographic Catalogue c. A.D. 625 to 1100 (New York, 1986), no. 123.

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

Mynors, R. A. B., R. H. Rouse, and M. A. Rouse, ed., Registrum Anglie de Libris Doctorum et Auctorum Veterum, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 2 (London, 1991), R7.31.

Sharpe, R., et al., , English Benedictine Libraries: the Shorter Catalogues, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 4 (London, 1996), B39.323.

Page, R. I., 'New Work on Old English Scratched Glosses', in Studies in English language and early literature in honour of Paul Christophersen, ed. P.M. Tilling (Ulster, 1981), 105-15.

Lapidge, M., 'The Study of Latin Texts in Late Anglo-Saxon England: the Evidence of Latin Glosses', in Latin and the Vernacular Languages in Early Medieval Britain, ed. N. Brooks (Leicester, 1982), 99-140

Wieland, G. R., 'The Glossed Manuscript: Classbook or Library Book?', Anglo-Saxon England 14 (1985), 153-73.

Hartzell, K. D., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music (Woodbridge, 2006), p. 129.

Morgan, N. and Panayatova, S. (eds.) with the assistance of Rebecca Rushforth, Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge : a catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the the Cambridge colleges. Part 4, The British Isles. Volume 1, Insular and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts c.700-c.1100 (London, 2013)