MS. Auct. D. 2. 1

Summary Catalogue no.: 2312

1. (fol. 2)

Clement of Llanthony, De sex alis Cherubim

Rubric: ... Explanatio Clementis ⟨Lanto⟩nie⟨nsis⟩ [probably originally, Lanthoniensis prioris, but altered in the 15thcent.] super alas cherubin & seraphin

Incipit: Prima ala Confessio est

An additional quire of four leaves (fols. 2-6). This treatise could not be entirely written on the four added leaves and so overflowed on to fol. 6, but left room for a title on fol. 6v, now partially erased, which ran 'Incipit liber Psalmorum secundum glosulam Clementis Lantoniensis ecclesie prioris'.

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 7)

Book of Psalms, with commentary of Gilbert de la Porrée,

'Liber Psalmorum vel ymnorum vel soliloquiorum prophete de Christo' (a title on fol. 8r) preceded by a prologue on fol. 7 (beg. 'Christus integer, caput cum membris, est materia huius libri') and a preface to the 1st Psalm, on fol. 8r. The Psalter follows with many glosses, and a preface and 'summa' to each psalm: the summa of Ps. 45 (= 44, Eructavit cor meum) is in verse.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 223 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 12.625 × 9 in.

Decoration

There are fine illuminated capitals on fols. 2, 8v, 42v, 59v, 80 (with three figures), 81, 102, 124v, 145, 147v (with figure), 164v, 189. Pächt and Alexander iii. 226, pl. XXII:

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

Binding

Stamped leather, Oxford, about 1605.

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English, West Midlands (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Lanthony (Secunda), Gloucestershire, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist: Numbering of psalms at foot of pages in usual style. (MLGB3: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe).

On fol. 223v is 'Pertinet domino Robert Toff' (late 15th cent.) and written a little later) 'Orate', 'Orate pro anima domini Roberti Toff'.

Acquired by the Library in or before 1602.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922) with additional reference to literature as cited. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 302

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 303