MS. Lat. misc. d. 80
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
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Provenance and Acquisition
John Lowe , given to the library of the Convent of Augustinian friars in London , 15th cent. The bifolium in B.M Add. 34652 mentioned below has the inscription (fol.11) ‘Liber epistolarum Sidonii’ (14th cent.) and ‘Pro nova libraria London per me fratrem Johannem Lowe’ (15th cent.). This refers to the library of the Convent of Augustinian friars at London, which was built and furnished according to Leland (Collectanea IV.54) by John Lowe, bp. of St. Asaph 1437–44, and of Rochester 1444–67.
His son C. C. J. Webb .
Bought, 1957
MS. Lat. misc. d. 80 – Part 1
Contents
V.3 ‘prope modum’ - VIII.12 ‘vetabis. Quid’. There is the same confusion and dislocation of the order of the letters in books VI, VII and VIII as in Florence Marcianus 554 and Brussels 10020–1 (cf. Sidonius ed. (from this MS.) Luetjohann, pp.xiii, xv). A bifolium of this manuscript containing I.1, 2, 11 is in a collection of fragments in Brit Mus. Add.MS.34652 fol.11, 12. There are marginal glosses copied from the exemplar which are the same as those in Brit Mus.Royal MS.4.B.IV.
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33 long lines
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Penwork.
Pale blue, red and green initials.
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MS. Lat. misc. d. 80 – Part 2
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2 cols., 37 lines
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Spaces left for initials.
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MS. Lat. misc. d. 80 – Part 3
Contents
A full collation was printed in Joannis Saresberiensis Policraticus ed. C. C. J. Webb, Oxford, 1909, II. 427–34
As pr. in the edition of C. S. Barach and J. Wrobel, except that here the breviarium, called ‘Epilogus Gern[ardi] (sic) Silvestris in primum librum in quo agit de megacosmo qui constat ex iiiior elementis’, precedes the letter to Thierry of Chartres. The text ends incomplete ‘modulatio nexum’ (II.4.7).
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2 cols., 48–59 lines
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Red and blue initials, with green titles on fol.45v.
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.