MS. e Mus. 3
Summary Catalogue no.: 3496
Commentaries on Prophets; Vita Bernardi; Navigatio Brendani. England, c. 1200.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The latter part is wanting after p. 152, 'cucurri & direxi'
Stegmüller 7867The first part is wanting, beg. on cap. i, v. 3?
Imperfect: beg. 'tocius orbis nota' in bk. i, ch. 21, some leaves being lost before this leaf: the life ends after bk. iii, ch. 25 (Migne's Patr. Lat., tom. clxxxv, coll. 315-66):
a 'quite peculiar recension' of the Navigatio Brendani, only known from this MS. and printed in full in C. Plummer's Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (1910), vol. ii, p. 270, cf. i. xlii. There is here no contemporary title.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Valle Crucis, Denbighshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber sancte Marie de Valle Crucis' in red, at head of fol. 1r (s. xiii). (MLGB: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
The book first appears in Bodleian lists about 1655.
Record Sources
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-09: Correct provenance from Vale Royal to Valle Crucis (ex inf. Ralph Hanna)