MS. Lat. th. c. 23
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Reject leaves, containing (fol.1) III Kings ch. XIX (P.L. 198 col. 1363D ‘quadrata et ex omni parte’) - ch.XXI (P.L. 198 col.1366C ‘immolavit salomon hostias’), and (fol.2–5v) III Kings ch. XXXVI (col.1381B ‘sibilus aure tenuis’) - IV Kings ch. VIII (col. 1392A ‘id est cum elegisset’).
From chap. II of his account of Maccabees to the end of Acts. Due to the loss of leaves there are lacunae in the text at fol.39v (P.L.198 col.1597D ‘aristas se spargunt’ - col.1606A ‘propagatione et est’) and fol.62v (col.1662C ‘ideo necesse erat’ - col.1699D ‘operatur arte magica’). Another MS. containing the same part of the Hist. Schol. is Edinburgh, national Library MS. 6122, c.1200.
Ends imperfect, the title on fol.6 indicating that the final quire is missing.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
36 long lines
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 310:
Good and other initials. Illuminated initials in blue, red, green and buff on fol.6 and 12v
The rest flourished blue, green and red, the rubrication ending at fol.55
Binding
contemporary boards, clasp missing.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Liber sancte Marie Hurl.' (Hurley, cell of Westminster Abbey), 13th century
‘Quisquis in hunc librum sua lumina verteret unquam / Nomen subscriptum perlegat ipse meum. Per me Morganum Awbrey Oxoniae studiosum’ and ‘Noverint universi per praesentes nos Iohannem Jevons clericum p⟨a⟩rochiae de West Hen⟨d⟩red et Thomam clericum teneri firmiter obligari Waltero herberte’, late 16th or early 17th cent. hands. Walter Herberte was rector of East Hendred 1571 – 1605).
Bought at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1957, lot 60
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.