Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 029: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica

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Summary: CCCC MS 29 is an early thirteenth-century manuscript containing Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Genealogia historiarum(Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi) (also in CCCC MSS 83 and 437), and Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187), Historia scholastica. The manuscript contains a number of illustrations, including a seven-branched candlestick and a seraph, with accompanying allegorical interpretations. It also features decorative initials containing grotesques.
Contents: Genealogia historiarum -- Historia scholastica

Alternative title	Petri Comestoris Historia Scholastica
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 158 + 11
Date created	[ca. 1200 - 1225]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum, paper
Layout	double columns of 49 lines
Height (mm)	348
Width (mm)	250
Collation	3 flyleaves, a(2?) b(6), 1(8)-20(8) (wants 7-8). One page at each end covered with paper.
Writing	in two main hands, both very good
Foliation	ff. a-b + i-xi + 1-157 + xii + c-d
Additions	Three flyleaves at the beginning are from a xiiith cent. MS. of decretals in small hand. Then a blank leaf (i)., f. iir a has xvith cent. note and title., ff. iiir-viiir have the compendium of sacred history up to the time of Christ which is often found written on rolls and attributed to Petrus Pictavensis: Considerans hystorie sacre prolixitatem with genealogical tables.
Decoration	On iiv a drawing of the seven-branched candlestick with allegorical explanation, and diagram of 'transitus filiorum israel per mare rubrum'., On viiiv a drawing of a seraph, with the allegorical significance of the six wings and feathers., There are some very handsome decorative initials containing grotesque figures, e.g. Genesis f. 1v; Exodus (a centaur) f. 19r; Numbers (retaining its cloth guard) f. 34v; Joshua, curious figure f. 44r.
2 fo.	considerans, uocat

M.R. James Date	xiii early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nz197nv4562/MS_29.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ky556kh2774/29.pdf
Contains	Title Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum. vir-xir Author Peter of Poitiers Title Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. 1r-xiiv Author Petrus Comestor Rubric (1r) Petri ComestorisHistoria Scholastica (1r) Incipit prologus epistolaris Incipit (1r) Reuerendo patri et domino suo Willelmo Explicit (1r) per omnia benedictus deus. Amen Note Capitula Rubric (1r) Incipit prefatio Incipit (1v) Imperatorie maiestatis Note (P. L. CXCVIII 1053) Explicit (1v) princeps est et principium Rubric (1v) Incipit hystoria scolastica de creatione Incipit (1v) In principio erat uerbum Note (66r) Hand changes Explicit (157v) in catacumbis Note (157v) Epitaph of P. Comestor in a later hand (xiir) blank (xiiv) Verso covered with paper
TJames	13
Stanley	B. 1
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xj710dc7305
Location	MS 029
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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