The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

O.5.20

Shelfmark	O.5.20
Manuscript Title	John Scotus Erigena, I. Periphyseon II. Gospel of St Luke
Alternative Title	Johannes Scotus Erigena. Evangelium S. Lucae.
James Number	1301
Century	12^th
Physical Description	Two volumes. In two exceedingly good hands. I. In double columns of 54 lines: a fine close hand. Initials mostly in red or green, and quite plain. Rubrics usually in small capitals. II. Single lines, 33 to a page. In a very fine large black round minuscule. Written in paragraphs with a plain coloured initial at the beginning of each: red, purple, blue, and green occur. The initials to Prologue and text are large and very plain, in red. My impression is that this part of the volume was written at the same place as the first part.
Provenance	Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738.Marked A. 21. At the bottom of f.1 is an erasure. Wood ap. Tanner speaks of an ancient MS. of the De divisione naturae as being in the Hereford Library. Is this the Hereford MS.? The book is a very rare one.
Second Folio	Non ergo nos
Religious House	Malmesbury, Wiltshire, Benedictine Abbey
Donor	Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm)	37.5 x 25
Folio	128 and 28 ff.
Material	Parchment
Language	Latin
Collation	I. 1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰ 4⁸-13⁸ 14¹⁰ 15¹⁰. II. 1⁸ 2⁸ 3¹².
IIIF Manifest URL	https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.5.20/manifest.json
Online Since	21/07/2015

Contents :
p.1 I. Joannes Scotus Erigena de divisione naturae
Edited by Gale. Oxford, 1681.
INCIPIT Liber primus peri fiseon merismov .i. de divisione nature .i.
Sepe mihi cogitanti diligentiusque quantum uires suppetunt inquirenti.
Ends p.38: Fige limitem libri sat enim in eo est complexum.
Expl. liber i. peri phision.
Inc. liber ii.
p.38 Quoniam in superiori libro de uniuersalis nature uniuersali diuisione.
Ends p.79:
Et iam huic libro terminus est imponendus ut arbitror.
Δ. Ita fiat. Expl. liber secundus.
p.79 Inc. liber tertius ΠΗΡΙΦΙΣΗΟΣ
In secundo libro toto fere nostre ratiocinationis intentio.
Ends p.152: terminum postulauerat. Expl. lib. iii.
p.132 Inc. quartus
Prima nostre phisiologie intentio.
Ends p.184: et iam dudum finem postulat. Expl. liber quartus ΠΗΡΥΦΥICHωΝ ΜΗΡΙΣΜΟΥ.
p.184 Inc. quintus
Nunc agone forte mittat manum suam.
Ends p.256:
et tenebras recognoscentium conuertit in lucem.
peri fiseon merismoi
Explicit liber ΠΕΡΥΦΥΣΕΟΝ ΜΕΡΙΣΜΟΥ (glossed perifiseon merismoi) . hoc est de nature diuisione.
R⋮C·RD·⋮·S M: SCR⋮PS⋮T (Ricardus me scripsit).

II. Euangelium secundum Lucam.
I do not know why this Gospel stands by itself.
Prologue to Luke, the first two lines in capitals.
p.257 Lucas syrus antiochenus
-fastidientibus prodidisse.
p.258 The Gospel according to St Luke
Q (the next words have not been inserted, as far as) ordinare narrationes.
The text has no marginal additions of any kind, and no colophon.
It ends on p.312:
benedicentes dominum
[NB London, British Library, Royal Appendix 85, ff. 25-6 was once part of this MS]

Bibliography

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

Gameson, R., The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford, 1999), no. 169 [with London, British Library, Royal App. 85, ff. 25-6; s. xii^1-2/4 (post 1125), provenance at Malmesbury]

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 379, pl. 52 [pp.1-265 between 1125 and circa 1143, from Malmesbury]

Mynors, R. A. B., and R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library (Woodbridge, 1993), p. 40.

Jeanneau, E., 'Guillaume de Malmesbury, premier éditeur anglais du "Periphyseon"', in Sapientiae doctrina: mélanges de théologie et de littératures médiévales offerts à Dom Hildebrand Bascour (Leuven, 1980)

Thomson, R. M., 'The "Scriptorium"of William of Malmesbury', in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker, ed. M. B. Parkes and A. G. Watson (London, 1978), pp. 117-42.

Bishop, T. A. M., 'Periphyseon: an Episode in the Tradition', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 7 (1977-80), 411-26.

Thomson, R. M., William of Malmesbury (Woodbridge, 2003)

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