Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 149: Hegesippus (attrib.), Historia Iosephi de bello iudaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae

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Summary: CCCC MS 149 is a manuscript of the Historia Iosephi de bello iudaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae, pseudonymously attributed to the second-century historian, Hegesippus, as was common in the Middle Ages. On the grounds of its script it can be dated to the first half of the twelfth century. A partially erased ex libris inscription shows that it was at a foundation dedicated to St Andrew, and the Augustinian priory of Hexham has been suggested. The manuscript has flyleaves from a mid-twelfth-century Italian legal manuscript. According to James, fragments from the same manuscript survive in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 285, and in Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 7, a manuscript which Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253) gave to Bury St Edmunds in exchange for another.
Contents: Historia Iosephi de bello iudaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae

Alternative title	Egesippus
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 135 + 3
Date created	[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	38 lines to a page
Height (mm)	310
Width (mm)	175
Collation	a (three) i(8)-xvii(8) (wants 8).
Writing	in various good hands, rather rough and fluctuating
Foliation	ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-135 + c-d
Provenance	At top of f. 1 (xiii) erased Lib. sci Andr' de ... Jo le(?) The obvious churches of St Andrew are Rochester, Hexham, Wells.
Additions	The three flyleaves (ff. ir-iiiv) are from a very beautifully written Italian copy of the Digest of cent. xii, with interesting initials, birds, dragons, etc. outlined in red, washed with green and yellow: double columns of 49-50 lines. More leaves from the same book are at Pembroke College, taken from the binding of a book which was given to Bury Abbey by R. Grosseteste in exchange for another (no. 7. See my catalogue p. xl: cf. also MS. 285 at Gonville and Caius College). The marginal and interlinear notes are of exquisite delicacy.

M.R. James Date	xi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hf097hn8466/MS_149.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gb216wr9029/149.pdf
Contains	Title 'Hegesippus', Historia Iosephi de bello iudaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae. 1r-134v Author Hegesippus Rubric (1r) In hoc corpore continentur egisippi historie libri numero quinque cum dei adiutorio incipit prologus Note (P. L. XV 1965) Incipit (1r) Quattuor libros regnorum quos scriptura complexa est Explicit (1r) hinc igitur sumam exordium Rubric (1r) Explicit prologus (1r) Incipit liber primus Incipit (1v) Bello partico quod inter machabeos Note Outline initial filled with two greens and a red An obvious change of hand in f. 9v. Another at f. 36r (42r) Liber II Other hands are obvious about f. 52r, again at 57r (60r) Liber III (77r) Liber IV Another hand at 81r (93v) Liber V Ends Explicit (134v) Opes autem eorum appositus ab ipsis prius ignis consumpsit Note On f. 135v xiii-xiv: Omnibus omnia non mea sompnia dicere possumSi tibi copia si sapiencia formaque deturSola superbia destruet omnia si comitetur
TJames	47
Stanley	E. 5
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tj601fd3737
Location	MS 149
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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