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. (Pächt and Alexander 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.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.