St John's College MS 75
Raymund of Peñaforte and Gregory, Cura pastoralis
Physical Description
Condition
Decoration
In the original parts of Manuscript 1: headings in red.
At the head, a 7-line red and blue lombard on red and blue flourishing.
At internal divisions, 3- and 4-line alternating red and blue lombards on flourishing of the other colour.
Alternating red and blue paraphs to divide the text.
In the original parts of Manuscript 2: headings and marginal notations of authorities in red.
Alternating red and blue 2-line lombards on flourishing of the other colour.
Red-slashed capitals at heads of sentences to divide the text.
Binding
A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. Holes and rust from strap mountings, running through to fol. 1. At the front, one modern paper flyleaf, one medieval vellum flyleaf (perhaps from a wrapper); at the rear, two medieval vellum flyleaves and one of modern paper (iii–v).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Henr’ Wad’ eadward Roch et blake kempe’ (fol. 88v, the upper margin, in lead; s. xiii ex. or xiv in.).
Very faded accounts in lead, on the last two pages the entries ticked with a red dot at the head (fols. ii, iiiv–iv, s. xiii/xiv).
The remains of a medieval shelfmark ‘..111’? (fol. iiv).
Signatures and pen-trials (fols. iiiv, iv).
In the Benefactors’ Book, col. ii, among the books donated by John White in 1555, as ‘Raimundi Letardi summae et Pastorale Gregorij MS’.
MS 75 - flyleaf (a)
Flyleaf (a)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Hand(s)
written in the same anglicana hand, s. xiv1 or s. xiv2/4.
History
MS 75 - flyleaf (b)
Flyleaf (b)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Pusilla res est hominis anima sed uigens res contemptus anime’, ‘Anselmus Qui plangit peccata sua et non deserit in maiora culpe se beneficit’, ‘Gregorius Non inueitur [sic for inuenitur] suplicium quo digne puniatur ingratitudinis vicium’, ‘Rem tege gaudebis sed detegis forte carebi⟨ ⟩'.
Added notes in different handsPhysical Description
Layout
above two musical staves, of five and four lines.
Manuscript 1 = Fols. 1–92
Contents
Language(s): Latin with added texts in Anglo-Norman
Summa de paenitentia, with De matrimonia (Kaeppeli 3:283–7, nos. 3407–8), first published Rome, 1603 (rept. Farnborough: Gregg Press, 1967). A great many marginal corrections; on fols. 67v–8, a protracted marginal gloss for topics discussed here on oral confession.
Added texts, written in on blank leaves at the end of the last quire:
In double columns, each column 188 × 65 mm. , with 9 mm between columns, in 52 lines to the column. Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii med., below top line. At the head, a 3-line blue lombard on red flourishing; alternate red and blue paraphs.
(CPL 1080), , ed. Claude W. Barlow, Martini episcopi Bracarensis opera omnia (New Haven, 1950), 236–50, , ending at ch. 6/3 (with ‘seruaueris’). At the end of the text, brief definitions of the four virtues (neither Cicero’s nor Macrobius’) and the start of an additional note.
In the same page format as the preceding, but a gothic textura rotunda, s. xiii med. Two-line red and blue lombards on flourishing of the other colour.
In double columns, each column 203 × 60 and 70 mm. , with 9–11 mm between columns, in 56 lines to the column. The same scribe as the preceding item. No decoration.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In double columns, each column 180–5 × 65 and 60 mm. , with 9 mm between columns, in 55 lines to the column. Regular prickings to fol. 20; bounded and ruled in black and brown ink.
Hand(s)
Written in gothic textura rotunda, above top line (given the text, the MS must postdate 1234). Punctuation by medial point.
History
Manuscript 2 = Fols. 93–136, extended to Fol. 138
Contents
Language(s): Latin with some added material in Anglo-Norman
CPL 1712, , ed. Bruno Jadic et al., Règle pastorale, SC 381–2 (1992), , preceded by GREGORY, epistola 6.53, ed. Dag Norberg, CC 140 (1982), 426. A table of chapters follows the initial letter (fols. 93ra–vb).
Bloomfield, no. 0298.
Added texts, written on the blank leaves of the last quire and an added bifolium:
Not in Bloomfield.
In double columns, in carefully written portions, each column 202 × 60 mm. , with 10 mm between columns, in 44 lines to the column; the presentation becomes progressively less formal. Written in anglicana, s. xiv in.
‘Nonne sum satis pro te afflictus pro tua culpa auferenda wlneratus noli me vlterius infligere certe plus grauabit me wlnus peccati tui quam wlnus lateris mei’.
A brief note, Jesus addressing the Christian from the cross,written in anglicana, s. xiv med.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In double columns, each column 205–10 × 60–5 mm. , with 10 mm between columns, in 46 lines to the column. Frequent prickings; bounds and rules in black and brownish ink.
Hand(s)
Written in gothic textura semiquadrata, s. xiii in. above top line. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus, many points ‘corrected’ to virgulae later.
Decoration
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-01: First online publication