The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.4.44
Manuscript Title

John Colet (attrib), On the Epistle of St Paul

Alternative Title

Analysis Epistolarum S Pauli

James Number 1274
Century 16th
Physical Description

30 lines to a page. In a beautiful Italic hand, probably that of Peter Meghen: the headings in blue, in Roman script.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738.Marked H. 7. No. 320. On f.2 is No. 1195 in a xvith cent. hand often met. [Perhaps Royal Library? - N.R. Ker]On the flyleaf a note by Thomas Gale.Videtur esse opus Jo. Coleti Decani Sti Pauli Lond:Multa hic plane eadem sunt cum iis quae scripsit manu sua Coletus in libro qui servatur in Capitulari domo Eccl. Sti Pauli. atque adeo haec sunt quasi secundae curae.Multa hic parum emendata scribuntur, quo vitio Coletus laborabat. Ea subinde notantur et corriguntur.Ordo Epistolarum Sti Pauli non est idem hic, qui est in illo altero libro manu Coleti scripto. T. G.

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Folio 64 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

in quires of 4 leaves: the last leaf stuck to the cover.

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Contents


An Analysis of the Epistles attributed to Colet.
The first leaf begins without heading:
Quantum vales conare ut quicquid egeris id coram deo facias in nomine interiori deum quere et tene etc.
The Epistles are treated in the following order:
Heb. Philem. Tit. 2 Tim. 1 Tim. 2 Thess. 1 Thess. Col. Phil. Eph. Gal. 2 Cor. 1 Cor. Rom. 1 Pet.
Ex primo Cap. ad Rom.
See J. H. Lupton's edition of the notes on 1 Peter, etc. 1876.

Bibliography

Hellinga, L., and J. B. Trapp, ed., The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3, 1400-1557 (Cambridge, 1999)

Carley, J. P., The Libraries of King Henry VIII, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 7 (London, 2000), H2.1195

Trapp, J. B., 'John Colet, his manuscripts and the ps.-Dionysius' in Classical influences on European culture, AD 1500-1700, ed. R.R. Bolgar (Cambridge, 1976), 205-21

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