Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 485: Bible
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 485 is an English Latin Bible of the middle years of the thirteenth century which includes a list of books once owned by Robert of Aldsworth (fl. 1275), a monk of Gloucester. The Bible was at Gloucester by the third quarter of the thirteenth century as evidenced by an inscription mentioning Reginald de Haunne, abbot 1263-84. The book is decorated with ornamental and figure initials in a simple style, not using gold grounds.
- Contents
- Bible
Description
Alternative title | Biblia |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 3 + 379 |
Date created | [ca. 1200 - 1299] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 54 lines |
Height (mm) | 260 |
Width (mm) | 175 |
Collation | a(4) (1 lining cover, 4 gone), 1(16)-12(16) (16 canc.) | 13(16)-24(16) (wants 15, 16). |
Writing | in a very good small hand |
Foliation | ff. i-ii + 1-381 |
Provenance | At the bottom of the page (f. ir), in a different hand from the booklist described below: Hunc librum concessit mihi et deliberauit ven. in Xo pater et dominus Reg. Abbas monasterii S. petri Glouc. quousque Johannes Orchard monachus dicti monasterii mihi solverit xxvjs viijd nomine Johannis Twenyng monachi, etc. Et predicto ven. patri Reg. tradidi librum scilicet Bibliam quam implegiauit michi dictus J. Twenyng. The Abbot in question is Reginald de Haunne, who presided from 1263 to 1284. There is little room for doubt that the book is from Gloucester. The flyleaves supply some interesting records. In the cover is written (xiii): Hunc librum fecit scribi Robertus de Aldeswyrth (Aldsworth is near Gloucester). Sum de communi. nolo fieri specialis Tradar sic uni quod cunctis sim generalis. qui me furatus fuerit aut alienauerit. sit ille maledictus. Plectatur pena tali quod sit anathema. Then in a xvith cent. hand, with a thick line drawn through it: Sum Richardi Mirre emptus de Willelmo Davis Clerico. |
Additions | Press-mark C. 3. 21., On the next leaf (f. ir), in a good set hand of cent. xiii: Hii sunt libri Roberti de Aldesword'. videlicet Quinque biblie. quarum una est apud Hereford. Item duo spalteria glosata. Item Decreta et Decretalia. Item Scolastica historia. Item Ecclesiasticus et liber sapientie glosati. Item Epistole canonice glosate. Item Due summe de uirtutibus et alia summa Petri cantoris parisiasensis et tractatus qui uocatur templum domini in uno uolumine. Item Summa de uitiis et testamentum patriarcharum. Item Summa gaufridi. Item Summa Reymundi et tractatus de anima ualde subtilis. Item Summa que dicitur qui bene presunt. et Rabanus de corpore domini et glose super quartum librum sententiarum. et Meditationes S. Bernardi. et liber de quantitate anime. et exceptiones de confessione b. Augustini. Item tractatus super XII prophetas cum quibusdam nouis constitutionibus papalibus et generalis capituli. Item Sententie lumbardi. Item Summa Willelmi Autisiodor' super sentencias. Item liber qui uocatur Gemma sacerdotalis. Col. 2. Item Sermones S. cantuar. et glose super ecclesiasticum et summa super sententias. Liber qui uocatur disciplina lingue. cum sermonibus Manducatoris et dominica oratio multipliciter exposita. Item tractatus super cantica canticorum. Item Speculum ecclesie et summa de penitentia et expositio super euuangelia dominicalia. Item moralia super Iob. Item ferrum situ (i.e. Alex. Neckam's Corrogationes). Item tractatus super xii prophetas. Item liber de claustro anime. Item expositio super exodum. Item destinsiones super spalterium. Item prouerbia et edificatoria alia W. Cancelar' Lincol. edita. Item Boecius de trinitate. Item sermones Roberti pullani. Item tract. de fide spe et caritate. Item tract. super ecclum. It. spalterium. Item belet et Innocent.' super missam et multiplices super canonem misse tractatus. Item tract. super epp. et euuangelia dominicalia. Item tract. bonauentur' super sententias. Item exp. super epp. et euuang. domin. et sermones de precipuis festiuitatibus anni., On the verso (f. iv), in a hand of cent. xvi: What dayes of the moone are good or bad for certayne thinges heere specified. A list follows. |
Binding | Brown leather binding with later stamp in gold of crest: a stag's head and neck erased, surrounded by garter and surmounted by baron's coronet. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiii |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xk876dn8316 |
Location | MS 485 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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