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Glossed Gospel of Mark : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 2-88. Latin. Glossed. On f. 88v, a collect to Mark; on f. 89, near-contemporary notes in light plummet; on f. 89v, miscellaneous added notes, s. XIII, pertaining to the biblical text; on . f. 90, added s. XIV: twelve lines of a hymn accompanied by neumes on four-line red staves: "[E]xpurgetur zima vetus, reprobetur meta metus ..." mentioning the English saints Thomas, Edmund, Edward, Alphege, and Alban.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1185 and 1199]
Call number: mssHM 55670
Provenance: Purchased by Maggs for the Huntington Library, 1995. Written doubtless at and for a monastic library, as suggested by the texts and the mediocre parchment. On f. 4, s. XVI, "Sum hoptouni[?] & amicorum suorum." "The Property of a Gentleman", sold at Sotheby's, 29 March 1944, lot 666; bought by Maggs. "The Property of a Gentleman", sold at Sotheby's, 14 March 1949, lot 144, bought by Bond. Foster William Bond (1901-81), philatelist; sold by order of his executors at Sotheby's, 8 December 1981, lot 76. Bookplate, printed "Ex libris" and inscribed "Charles Hartley." (inner face of front board); sold at Sotheby's, 20 June 1995, lot 62 (with plate); bought by Maggs for the Huntington Library.

Grand coutumier and Decisions of the Norman Exchequer : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-89v: [Grand Coutumier]: Prologue: Incipit liber de iuribus et consuetudinibus normannorum. Incipit: De iure, Ius itaque quoddam est naturale ... Explicit: usque ad quindecimum diem post submonitionem factam. Explicit textus consuetudinum normannorum. [The first prologue and the chapter list were added to the manuscript in another hand on ff. 101v-102v. The second prologue ("Cum ineffrenare cupiditatis malicia humanum genus ardore suo insaciabili teneat irretitum . . . ") is copied as part of the text, on f. 1r-v]. ff. 89v-97v: [Decisions of the Exchequers of Falaise, Rouen and Caen for the years 1207-1237]. ff. 98-100v: [Proceedings of the assize of Rouen, for the year 1205] ff. 100v-01v: [Exchequer, session of Michaelmas, 1282, and in Rouen, 1291, added by another hand, in French].

mssHM 1343

Bible : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

vol. I, ff. 1v- 241v; vol. II, ff. 1v- 262v. [Bible]. Latin. Bible in the following order: in vol. I: Octateuch, Psalms (with Ps. 151), Sapiential books (with the prayer of Solomon), 1-2 Paralipomenon, Ezra, Nehemiah, Gospels; in vol. II: 1-4 Kings, Job, Tobit, Esther, Judith, 1-2 Maccabees, Prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse, Pauline Epistles (with the letter to the Laodiceans after Hebrews); Baruch has been added at the end in a later hand. Most books are preceded by a chapter list (except the Minor prophets); there are 71 prologues; stichometry noted in rubrics concluding Romans and Hebrews. In Vol. 1: f. 1, s. XIII, list of the contents of vol. I, and an ownership note: Prima pars biblie per bone memorie Gundulfum Roffensem Episcopum. Liber de claustro Roffensi quem qui inde alienaverit alienatum celaverit vel hunc titulum in fraudem deleverit excomunicatus est, ferentibus sentenciam [dicto] sancto Episcopo Priore et singulis presbiteris Capituli Roffensis; f. 1, s. XVI/XVII, an owner's note: Memorandum this Bible is perfecte which I woulde wishe to be safelye kepte togither with ye booke in written hande called Reductorium Bibliae in quo moralizantur omnes figurae Bibliae. The book is covered in wood and white lether. In Vol. II, f. 1, s. XIII, list of the contents of vol. II, and an ownership note: Secunda pars biblie. Per felicis recordacionis Gundulfum Roffensem episcopum. Liber de claustro Roffensi quem qui inde alienaverit alienatum celaverit vel hunc titulum in fraudem deleverit excomunicatus est, ferentibus sentenciam dicto sancto Episcopo Priore et singulis presbiteris capituli Roffensis. vol. I, f. 240. [Alcuin]. [Verses on the books of the Bible]. Incipit: In hoc quinque libri retinentur codice moysi. Explicit: Ad laudem christi propriamque in secla salutem. Latin. Added, s. XIImed, Stegmüller 290 and 1083. vol. I, ff. 240-241. [Theodulf of Orleans]. [Verses on the books of the Bible]. Incipit: Quicquid ab hebreo stilus atticus atque latinus. Explicit: Lector cui fulvum mentis acumen inest. Latin. Added, s. XIImed, Stegmüller 298 and 8006, lacking the last 4 verses. vol. I, f. 241; f. 241v blank. [Chanson de geste: first six verses, unidentified]. Incipit: Oor escutez seinurs que deus vus seit ami/L chevalier e seriant baieler e meschin/ Cest atre povre gent nel quier mie tolir/ Chancun bien fete plereit vus a oir/ Deu munt seint michiel d'ici qu'en puntif/ E de cordres sur mer d'ici qu'en aufric. French. Added, s. XIImed, the first 6 verses of an unidentified chanson de geste; see S. Harrison Thomson,"Oor Escutez Seinurs...," MLN 46 (1931) 368-69, and B. Woledge and I. Short,"Liste provisoire de manuscrits du XIIe siècle contenant des textes en langue française," Romania 102 (1981) 1-17, recording HM 62 on p. 8.

mssHM 62

Chronicle of England : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2v: [Three notes on chronology, added in 15th cent.]: Notandum est quod secundum Cestrensem in libro polecronice libro 1o capitulo 4o octo fuerunt modi calculandi annos ... Novissime vero christiani Anno ab incarnatione domini supputarunt; Nota quod sex sunt etates seculi prima ab Adam usque ad noe ... a christo usque ad finem mundi; Et nota quod in presente volumine ... versus finem mundi. [ ff. 1v-2v blank] ff. 3-88: [Chronicle of England; dates entered in the margins; some fifteenth century side notes in the hand of the scribe; extensive notes by various hands of the seventeenth century in Latin and in English in the margins and on f. 88v]: Incipit: Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen est sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion dicebatur. Est autem insula illa beatissima omnium insularum. Cuius insule Brutus post expulsos gigantes habitator ... Explicit: In cuius rei evidenciam quidam legatus apostolicus in socia tunc existens dictam camisiam postmodum domino pape ut dicitur deferebat. [ff. 87v-88v blank].

mssHM 48570

Gospels in Greek : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Vol. 1, f. 1 blank; f. 1v. [Miniature of Matthew]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 2-4; f. 4v blank. [Chronicle]. Greek. On added leaves, a chronicle, similar in part to that of Hippolytus of Thebes, from the creation to ca. 1250; printed from this manuscript by E. J. Goodspeed, "The Bixby Gospels," University of Chicago Historical and Linguistic Studies in Literature related to the New Testament ser. 1, 2 (1915) 123-52. Transposed in binding, folios 2 and 3. Vol. 1, ff. 5-11; ff. 11v-12 blank. [Menology]. Greek. Menology, 1 Septermber-31 August, but with loss of 2 leaves after f. 6 containing 12 December-22 January. Vol. 1, ff. 13-14. [Gospel readings]. Greek. List of gospel readings for Saturdays and Sundays in Lent. Vol. 1, ff. 14-20. [Synaxarium]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 20v-21. [Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 21-22v. [Eusebian canon tables]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 23-24v. [Κεφάλαια for Matthew]. Greek. Ὑπόθεσις of the gospel of Matthew; printed in H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Text gestalt (Göttingen 1913) I:1, p. 314 [120]; Κεφάλαια (68) for Matthew; four verses in honor of Matthew: ματθαίου τοδε ἔρχου . . . βροτὸν αὐτὸν ἐόντα; printed in von Soden, I:1, p. 373, 5; note added in a modern hand, τετραευάγγελον μονῆς τοῦ παντοκράτορος καὶ σωτῆρος χριστνῦ τὸν ἐν τῶ ᾄθω. Test of transliterated Greek: tetraeuángelon monē̃s toũ pantokrátoros kaì sōtē̃ros khristnũ tòn en tō̃ áͅthō Vol. 1, ff. 25-124v. [Gospel of Matthew]. Greek. Gospel of Matthew in 357 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; cf. Goodspeed, p. 128. Vol 1, ff. 125-127v. [Κεφάλαια for Mark]. Greek. Vol. 1, f. 125, ruled, but blank; f. 125v, full page miniature of Mark; f. 126, ruled, but blank; ff. 126v-127v, Κεφάλαια (48) for Mark. Vol. 1, ff. 128-196v. [Gospel of Mark]. Greek. Gospel of Mark in 234 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 2v-5v. [Κεφάλαια for Luke]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (83) for Luke; f. 5, blank; f. 5v, full page miniature of Luke. Vol. 2, ff. 6-118. [Gospel of Luke]. Greek. Gospel of Luke in 340 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 118v-119v. [Κεφάλαια for John]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (18) for John; f. 119: Miniature of John; f. 119v, ruled, but blank. Vol. 2, ff. 120-210v. [Gospel of John]. Greek. Gospel of John in 232 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia. On ff. 153-154v, pericope, John 7, 53-8, 11, added in the thirteenth century; collated by Goodspeed.

Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-193v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar with major feasts in red; ff. 13-21: [f. 13, blank], Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; f. 21v, ruled, but blank; ff. 22-40v: [f. 22, blank], Prayer to the Trinity and suffrages of John the Baptist, George, Christopher, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Barbara; ff. 41-89v: [f. 41, blank], Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem anglie, with, after lauds, suffrages of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Lawrence, Stephen, Thomas of Canterbury (ff. 61v-62, erasures), Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, for peace, and with the hours of the Cross worked in; ff. 89v-103: Fifteen Joys, farcing of the Salve Regina, O Intemerata, Obsecro te, Seven Joys; f. 103v, ruled, but blank; ff. 104-113: Prayers to God and to Christ; f. 113v, ruled, but blank; ff. 114-130v: [f. 109, blank on recto, with illumination of the Last Judgment on the verso, has been misbound and should be placed here], Penitential psalms, gradual psalms (cues only of the first 12), and litany; ff. 131-155: [f. 131, blank], Office of the Dead, Sarum use; f. 155v, ruled but blank; ff. 156-170: [f. 156, blank], Commendation of souls; f. 170v, ruled, but blank; ff. 171-177: [f. 171, blank], Psalms of the Passion; ff. 177-192v: Psalter of St. Jerome; f. 178v, ruled, but blank; f. 179, blank; f. 193r-v: ruled, but blank, except for prayers added, 17th century, including one in English.

mssHM 1144

Psalter, with collects : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.

mssHM 1041

Glossed Gospel of Mark : [manuscript]

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