MS. Lat. th. c. 26
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Patristic works; England, mid-12th century
Contents
Contemporary list of contents
pr. P.L.26 col.555–600
pr. P.L.26col.599–618, ends incomplete ten lines before the end: cui specialiter epistola dicatur, as does MS.Royal 3.B.I
pr. P. L.83 col.449–538. Bk.II begins on fol.46
An Irish work of the seventh cent. (see Clavis Patr. Lat. no.1123), pr. P.L.35 col.2151–2200. Bk.II begins on fol.66v, bk.III on fol.72
Clavis Patr. Lat. no.998, pr. P.L.59 col.415–520. Bk.II begins on fol.85v, and bk.III on fol.98v.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
2 cols., 36 and (fol.32–118v) 38 lines
Decoration
Plain red initials.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Liber iste est ecclesie sancti Edmundi regis et martiris . Quem qui defraudaverit sit anathema Ihesu. Amen' 13th century, and pressmark 'J. 16', no. cviiii in the Bury catalogue, ed. M. R. James, The Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury (Cambridge Antiq. Soc., publ.28), 1895, p.28
J. Anstis sale, 12 Dec. 1768, lot 120; R. Blyke sale, 11 May 1776, lot 23, bought by Scott for 2s 6d
Andrew Gifford (1700-84) (on whom see DNB) bequeathed with other manuscripts (including lot 10 from the Blyke sale), to the Bristol Baptist College , 1784
Bought, 1962.