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Concordantiae Bibliae 'St. Jacques III'

A full alphabetical concordance to the Latin Bible, including proper names.

Incipit: (preface) Cuilibet uolenti requirere Concordancias in hoc libro

Four or five words of each passage are quoted

The first words are A, Aaron, Abba pater, Abachuch, and the last is Zelpha

The attribution of the work to Conrad of Halberstadt (as in Summary Catalogue, Stegmüller 1999, Kaeppeli 755) was rejected by Rouse and Rouse on the grounds that the earliest references to the text seem to predate Conrad's period of activity.

Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse. “The Verbal Concordance to the Scriptures,” Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 44, 1974, pp. 5-30 (this ms. listed p. 29)
Verfasserlexikon (1985) V col. 190
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: v + 525 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 17 × 11.25 in.

Layout

3 cols

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 663

Good penwork initials. Included in Pächt and Alexander i. 624, as French (?)

History

Origin: 14th century, third quarter ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Windsor, Berkshire, Royal collegiate chapel of St George (?). No Windsor marks as the manuscript has been rebound, but perhaps to be identified with the Concordantie Biblie anon., the last item in the Benefactor's list, althought the 2º folio does not agree with that of the Concordantie Biblie in the 15th-century catalogue..

Presented by the dean and canons of Windsor in 1612 (?), see above.

Record Sources

Description adapted (December 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 455

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-12-26: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)