MS. Lat. th. c. 30
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
A fragment containing the Nativity, beg. incomplete (fol. 1): fuit a methodio potius mistice. (Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, ed. Th. de Graesse, Leipzig, 1850, 40). Ends incomplete (fol. 1v): Nam dicit b. in eadem persona. A bifolium presumably is missing between fols.1 and 2. St. Anastasia (26 Dec.)
St. Anastasia (26 Dec.), beg. incomplete (fol. 2): ‘De sancta Anastasia’. Anastasia nobilissima. Ends (fol. 2v): annos domini CCLXXX. St. Stephen (26 Dec.) ‘de ethimologia nominis’
A bifolium presumably is missing between fols.1 and 2.
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in pen
Decoration
Fine historiated initials. From the workshop of the Master of the Queen Mary Psalter. (P&A iii. 541)
Historiated initials with partial ivy leaf borders on fols.2, ‘A’. St. Anastasia on a pyre with two executioners and a king looking on, and on fol.2v, ‘S’, St. Stephen stoned by two men.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Sir Sydney Cockerell, note in his hand dated 4 Sept. 1932
Quaritch cat. 841, 1963, no. 241
Mrs. Raymond Lister, Sotheby's 10 July 1967, lot 3
Bought and given by J. R. Abbey, 1967.