Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 67
Matthew, glossed; Catholic Epistles, glossed
Physical Description
21st-century foliation:
1-88 | 89-117
Numbering in pencil.Collation
Additions
Rear pastedown: Monostich added in ink (Walther 27937), and a large quantity of notes in faded plummet / drypoint.
Binding
Original, repaired by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1975: tawed skin over thick, flush, chamfered oak boards; sewn on three bands, not raised on the flat spine; square-shouldered tabs at each end of the spine, once with blue cloth lining and blue overstitching; title in capitals up the spine; two marks of chain-staples at the foot of the front cover; formerly a strap of thick ?pink-stained skin from a recess in the front board to a pin at the rear. There was once an overcover.
History
The manuscript was made and kept at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds .
Provenance and Acquisition
Pressmark (B.92), written by the hand of Henry Kirkestede (c. 1314-c. 1379) (f. 1r).
Presumably given to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1599 by William Smart (d. 1599) , though it is not recorded by Thomas James or Matthew Wren. The College bookplate is pasted onto the front pastedown.
Part 1 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 67, ff. 1r-88v]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Typically not recorded in Stegmüller 11827, but sometimes found in part in entries therein, and among the examples cited, vol. 9, p. 523.
See also Pembroke College, MS 70, ff. ii verso-iii verso.
Not in Stegmüller
Some minor textual variations.
Also in Oxford, All Souls College, MS 12, ff. 180v-181v and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 57 , Part F, f. 103v.
Commonly found, in many versions.
A version of Recension III, not in the list of manuscripts in Haines.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quire 12 (ff. 1-2)
- Quires 2-78 (ff. 3-50)
- Quire 86 (ff. 51-56
- Quires 9-128 (ff. 57-88
Layout
265 × 210 mm. Introductory text (ff. 1-2): frame and lines ruled neatly in crayon, 49 lines, written above top line, in two columns.
215-240 × 65-110 mm. Text: in the second of three columns, in the middle of the page, frame and lines ruled carelessly in crayon, with line ruling ad hoc and independent of the other columns. 17-18 lines, written above top line, in larger script on every third line. Until f. 54, the text column is roughly 70mm in width, and variable thereafter.
Gloss: Ruled in two columns with crayon on either side of the text column, for approximately 39-46 lines of gloss written above top line (though not all lines accommodate a gloss), with the lines ruled ad hoc and independently of the text column and one another. Until f. 54, the gloss columns are roughly 65mm and 60mm in width, and variable thereafter.
Hand(s)
Text and gloss are each written by a single English scribe, in protogothic bookhand. The gloss hand wrote the material on ff. 1-2.
Folios 87r-88v are written by a different scribe, also in protogothic bookhand.
Decoration
A large L outlined in the same ink as used for the text, intended for colouring but left unfilled, with the accompanying display script also lacking and presumably also intended to be coloured (f. 3r).
Red or green initials, some ornamented in one or both colours (ff. 1-85).
Passages of gloss begin with large paraphs in the same ink as used for the text.
Folios 87-88 are undecorated.
Additions
Frequent additional glossing in small note-hands of the 13th century.
Additional Information
Bibliography
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Theoderici Libellus de locis sanctis editus circa A.D. 1172: Cui accedunt breviores
aliquot
descriptiones Terrae Sanctae Theoderici Libellus de locis sanctis editus circa A.D.
1172, (St. Gallen; Paris, Huber und Comp.; Librarie A. Frank, 1865)
Bibliotheca geographica Palaestinae: Chronologisches verzeichniss der auf die geographie
des
Heiligen Landes bezüglichen literature von 333 bis 1878, und versuch einer cartographie
Bibliotheca geographica Palaestinae, Röhricht, Reinhold (Berlin, H. Reuther, 1890)
Note sur la légende de la Lettre du Christ tombée du ciel Mélanges d'hagiographie
grecque et latine. Subsidia hagiographica, Delehaye, Hippolyte (Bruxelles, 150-178, Société des Bollandistes, 1966)
Itinera hierosolymitana crucesignatorum (saec. XII-XIII) Collectio maior, De Sandoli, Sabino (Jerusalem, 3: Tempore Recuperationis Terrae Sanctae, 1187-1244,
Franciscan Printing Press, 1978)
La lettre sur le dimanche, descendue du ciel Analecta Bollandiana, van Esbroeck, M. (107, 267-284, 1989)
Sunday observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon texts, Haines, Dorothy Ina (Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2010)
On the transmission of Peter Tudebode’s De Hierosolymitano itinere and related chronicles.
With a critical edition of Descriptio sanctorum locorum Hierusalem Revue d'Histoire
des Textes, Keskiaho, Jesse (10, 69-102, 2015, https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.RHT.1.103254)
Part 2 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 67, ff. 89r-117v]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Marginal gloss from the Glossa ordinaria (Stegmüller 11846-11852).
Different explicit to that recorded by Stegmüller.
Chapter 15.
Patristic extracts.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 13-158 (ff. 89r-112v)
- Quire 16five: perhaps originally a quire of 8 leaves. First leaf conjoint with rear pastedown; second leaf a singleton, stub remains of counterpart leaf, probably an excised blank; ?two leaves missing after f. 114; ff. 115-116 a bifolium stitched in separately.
Layout
215-240 × 95-100 mm. Text: in the second of three columns, in the middle of the page, frame and lines ruled in crayon, ruled independently of the gloss columns. 19 lines, written above top line, in larger script on every third line.
Gloss: Ruled in two columns with crayon on either side of the text column, for approximately 42-49 lines of gloss written above top line (though not all lines accommodate a gloss), with the lines ruled independently of the text column and one another.
Hand(s)
Text and gloss are each written by a single English scribe, in protogothic bookhand. The gloss hand wrote the material on ff. 115v-117v.
Decoration
A very few initials in red and/or green, sometimes with modest ornament.
Additional Information
Bibliography
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The Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday, Heist, William W. (East Lansing, MI, Michigan State College Press, 1952)
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Bibliography
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A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge, James, M.R. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1905)
The library and archives of Bury St Edmunds abbey, Thomson, Rodney M. (1974, unpublished PhD dissertation)
The Scriptorium of Bury St. Edmunds in the twelfth century Outstanding theses from
the Courtauld Institute of Art, McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker (New York, Garland, 1984)
Some 12th-century bindings from the library of Bury St Edmunds abbey: preliminary
findings Bury St Edmunds: medieval art, architecture, archaeology and economy British
Archaeological Association conference transactions, Sheppard, Jennifer M. ([S.l.], 194-203, British Archaeological Association, 1998)
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