Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 483: Bible (Genesis-IV Kings)

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Summary
CCCC MS 483 is a twelfth-century Latin Old Testament which runs from Genesis to IV Kings. Quires 1, 2 and 29 are fifteenth-century replacements. The script shows the book to be Italian. It contains fine unpainted outline initials for many of the biblical books.
Contents
Bible (Genesis - IV Kings)

Description

Alternative title Bibliorum pars I
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 2 + 237
Date created [ca. 1100 - 1199]; [ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 40 lines
Height (mm) 330
Width (mm) 225
Collation a (two) 110 210 || 38 (wants 1: it is now the flyleaf) 48-288 (wants 7, 8) || 2910 || 30 (two).
Writing The older part in a very fine black upright Roman minuscule
Foliation ff. a + i-ii + 1-237 + b
Provenance Given by ? (unknown donor).

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xii and xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gw274hw2237/MS_483.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gn879cj9616/483.pdf
Contains
Title
Bible (Genesis - IV Kings). 1r-236v
Note
(ir) in the original hand contains the text of Gen. xxxiii-xxxv beginning in xxxiii 1, oculos suos uidit uenientem. It should precede immediately f. 21r
f. iir is a much effaced document with notarial mark: apparently relating to a church in Ireland. The names Akadiens', Dublinens', Casselens' occur
Quires 1, 2 (ff. 1r-20v) are a supply of cent. xv, very neatly written
Rubric
(1r) Incipiunt capitula libri genesis (50)
Incipit
(1r) 1. Sex dies opera
Note
(1v) Text
At f. 21r the old hand begins in Gen. xxxv 11: gentes et populi
The original capitula run to 83
Rubric
(29v) Explicit liber bresit idest geneseos: habet versus iii d cc
(29v) Incipiunt capitula libri Exodi (139)
Note
(31v) Text with a fine initial in pencil outline
(31v) An erasure just above it
Rubric
(55v) Explicit ellesmoth. idest exodus
(55v) Incipiunt capitula libri leuitici (89)
(56v) Incipit liber valecra idest leuiticum
Note
(56v) Outline initial
Rubric
(73v) Explicit liber leuitici que ebraice dicitur valecra v ii ccc
(73v) Incipiunt capitula libri Numeri (74)
Note
(75r) Text. Outline initial
Rubric
(98r) Explicit liber numeri qui appellatur hebraice valedaber
(98r) Incipiunt capitula de libro deuteronomii (156)
Note
(100v) Text. Outline initial
Rubric
(121r) Explicit qui grece dicitur deuteronomii v. cc. dc (sic)
(121r) Incipit prephatio iesu naue et iudicum
Note
(121r) Text. Outline initial
Incipit
(121r) Tandem finito pentatheucho
Rubric
(122r) Incipit capitulatio libri iesu naue (33)
Note
(122v) Text. Outline initial
Rubric
(137r) Iosue benun explicit v. j.dccj
(137r) Incipit capitula iudicum (18)
Note
(137v) Text. Large outline initial
(139v) An odd marginal sketch
Rubric
(152r) Explicit liber sopthim idest iudicum v. i. dccl
(152r) Incipit liber ruth
Note
(152r) Good outline initial
(154r) Capitula of 1, 2, Regum without title (98)
Rubric
(156r) Explicit capitula regum libri primi et secundi
(156r) Incipiunt capitula regum libri iii et iiii (91)
Note
(159r) I Reg. Outline initial
Rubric
(179r) Explicit Samuhel liber primus v. ii. cc
(179r) Incipit Samuhel liber II
Note
(179r) Text. Outline initial
Rubric
(195v) Explicit liber secundus Samuhelis. habet uersus ii. cc
(195v) Incipit malachim idest regum liber III
Note
(195v) Text. Outline initial
Rubric
(214v) Explicit malachim idest regum liber III. habet uersus v. ii. d (sic)
(214v) Incipit eiusdem libri IIII
Note
(215r) Text. Outline initial
(225v) Original hand breaks off at 4 Reg. xvii 24
(225v) et de thutha et de aiath et
(226r) Quire 29 is a supply of cent. xv, as quires 1, 2
The leaf that should follow f. 225v is now bound as f. 236r, ending in xviii 27
(236v) ut loquerer sermones hos. et non
The supply completes 4 Reg. and continues with Prol. in libro paralipomenon (Si septuaginta) and 1 Par. i-vii 2 et raphaia et ierihel ema et iepsem et (Samuel)
(237v) The last leaf is, like f. iir, a part of a document much effaced
Line 1
(237v) ... vulgarie ... Regina prouincie pr ... alqa ... ii ac pedimontis comitissa ...
Lower down
(237v) Abbas monasterii S. Johannis de pr ... dioc. poli castriensis is mentioned
The monastery is that of S. Johannes de Piro in the diocese of Policastro (S. C. Cockerell)
(237v) The notary's signature contains the words Insula sicilie
TJames vac.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/qd947xd9843
Location MS 483
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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