St John's College MS 158
Anselm of Bec, ? Poenitentiale Egberti, Ivo of Chartres, Peter Damian
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Physical Description
Binding
A modern replacement. The loose spine shows four thongs, but the MS was actually sewn on only three. At the front, a marbled paper leaf (dated 1841 on the verso) and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled paper leaf (iv–vi).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Hic liber est ecclesie Sancte Marie de Suwic’ [Southwick] Quem qui ei abstulerit uel aliud aliquid fecerit quom⟨ ⟩nus eius sit nisi eidem condigne satisfecent sit anathema maranatha amen’ (fol. 139, lower margin; s. xii/xiii) (Ker, MLGB 181).
A contents list (fol. 1, lower margin; s. xvii).
Manuscript 1 = Fols. 1–38
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Sharpe, no. 120 (59–61), ed. Franciscus S. Schmitt, Sancti Anselmi Opera, 6 vols. (Edinburgh, 1946–61), 2:42–133. A contents table intervenes between the preface and the text (fols. 1rb–2ra).
ed. Schmitt, 3:84–91.
Ed. Schmitt, 2:139–48/14, breaking off in ch. 7. Preceded by a contents table (fol. 35ra–va). The text simply stops, with fol. 38vb blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In double columns, each column 145 × 50 mm. , with 7 mm between columns, in 30 lines. Prickings; bounded and ruled in stylus.
Hand(s)
Written in protogothic hookhand, s. xii3/4, one scribe for each text. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus (scribe 1); scribe 2 uses, in addition, the punctus interrogativus; and by point only (scribe 3).
Decoration
Headings in red, a fair number unfilled.
At the head of items 1 and 2, 5-line blue arabesque capitals with red vine-work.
At textual divisions, 2-line plain capitals, in red, green, blue, violet, a number of the spaces provided (including fol. 35va at the head of item 3) again unfilled.
History
Manuscript 2 = Fols. 39–146, Booklet 1 = Fols. 39–96
Contents
Language(s): Latin
A text related to ECGBERHT OF YORK, Poenitentiale (Sharpe, no. 251 [105–6]), ed. Arthur W. Haddan and William Stubbs, Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1869–71), 3:416–31, with substantial additions ascribed to GREGORY THE GREAT. A contents table for the whole follows the preface (fols. 39v–41). The foot of fol. 76 is blank, at the end of ch. 39; given the number of scribes and quiring, the text had been divided for copying, and the materials intervening between the two sections probably represent contemporary additions to fill blank leaves. Fol. 96rv is blank.
Added texts:
At least at the incipit, HALITGAR OF CAMBRAI, Liber poenitentialis, ed. PL 105:693.
Unidentified.
A fragment of an unidentified sermon on Luke 1:35.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In long lines, 24 lines to the page. Prickings; bounded and ruled in brown ink and brown crayon.
Hand(s)
A cooperative effort by several scribes: after a number of short stints at the start, fols. 46–71v by a single hand, s. xii med.; then another succession of scribes, with different hands at fols. 72–6, the top of 76v, 76v–7v, 78–80, 81–95v, all writing protogothic bookhand of s. xii med. or early s. xii2/2. Punctuation by punctus elevatus and punctus versus (fols. 46–71v); and by point, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus (fols. 81–95v).
Decoration
Headings in red.
Two-line arabesque initials in red and green at the head of the forty-odd sections.
History
Manuscript 2, Booklet 2 = Fols. 97–138
Contents
Language(s): Latin
with a paragraph of extra material at the end, ed. PL 162:527–35, 505–27, 535–66, 568–9, 598–9.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In long lines, 32–6 lines to the page (the writing becomes progressively more closely packed). No prickings; bounded and ruled in lead.
Hand(s)
A single scribe, contemporary with the rest. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus.
Decoration
Headings in red (a number of spaces unfilled).
Three- and 4-line red and green arabesque initials at incipits and major divisions of texts.
History
Manuscript 2, Booklet 3 = Fols. 139–46
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Chs. 1–18 only, ed. PL 145:231–46.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
In long lines, 35 lines to the page. Partial prickings; bounded and ruled in lead.
Hand(s)
A single hand of s. xii med. or xii3/4. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus.
Decoration
Headings in red.
Blue 2-line arabesque capital at the head; similar ones in red, some of them with gold touches, at textual divisions.
One small red capital to divide the text.
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
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2023-01: First online publication