Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 463: Bible

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Summary
CCCC MS 463 is a very small, late thirteenth-century portable Bible, perhaps made in North France. However, it contains an English calendar of Sarum use, and it might have been made in England. Apart from depictions of scenes of the Creation in the Genesis initial, the decoration is limited to coloured initial letters.
Contents
Bible

Description

Alternative title Biblia
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 7 + 599 + 3
Date created [ca. 1275 - 1299]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 44 (and 38) lines
Height (mm) 173
Width (mm) 117
Collation a (seven), 1(20) 2(20) (one canc.) 3(20) (one canc.) 4(20) 5(20) (one canc.) 6(18) 7(20) (one canc.) 8(20) (one canc.) 9(20) 10(20) (one canc.) 11(22) 12(16) 13(10) | 14(10) (wants 1, 2) 15(12)-17(12) 18(6) | 19(20) 20(18) 21(20) 22(20) (one canc.) 23(20) (one canc.) 24(20) (one canc.) 25(20) (one canc.) 26(20) 27(20) (one canc.) 28(20) (one canc.) 29(20) (one canc.) 30(20)-33(20) 34(18) | b (three).
Writing in excellent upright pointed hands
Foliation ff. i-viii + 1-599 + ix-xiii
Additions On the flyleaves are notes (xiv and xv), including on f. ivv some extracts apparently against images. (Epiphanius and the veil, etc.), On the flyleaves at the end are further notes, including extracts apparently against pilgrimage., The initials are all decorative, and in fine bright colours, except that to Genesis, which contains six small lozenge-shaped pictures of the days of creation.
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Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiii late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rz564cv6673/MS_463.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jy379qs0636/463.pdf
Contains
Title
Bible. 1r-598r
Note
(1r) Prologues
(1r) a. Jerome to Paulinus
(4r) b. Desiderii mei
(4v) Genesis-2 Paralipomenon, Esdrae, Nehemiae, 1 Esdrae (Et fecit), Tobiae, Judith, Esther
No unusual prologues. No prayer of Manasseh
(241r) Then follows a Kalendar and Psalter in another hand (xv). The kalendar in red and black. It seems purely Sarum and has notes of the Epistles and Gospels for all feasts
(247r) Table of Epistles and Gospels for Proper of Time
(249r) Psalter (Hebraicum)
(288r) followed by List of Cantica and
Incipit
(288r) Cum prophetas spiritus sancti reuelacione constat esse locutos
(289r) Liber dicit et non libri contra illos qui dicebant plures
Explicit
(290v) scilicet contra prospera et aduersa firmus
Note
The former hand then resumes
(291r) Job, Proverbia-Ecclesiastes
(341r) Isaias-Malachias, 1, 2 Machabaeorum
(471r) Evangelistae, Paulini Epistolae
(523r) Prologi
Incipit
(523r) Omnis numerus epistolarum.Primum queritur quemadmodum post euangelia.Romani sunt qui ex iudeisEpistole pauli ad romanos causa.Romani sunt partis ytalie
Note
Catholicae Epistolae, Ad ephesios, Actus Apostolorum, Apocalypsis
Incipit
(586v) Interpretationes. Aaron mons fortis
Explicit
(598r) Zorobabel ... uel iste magister confusionis
TJames 73
Stanley G. 15
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/pq574zw4714
Location MS 463
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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