Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 70
Matthew, glossed; Anselm of Laon, Commentary on Matthew
Physical Description
21st-century foliation:
i-iv + 1-70 | 71-127 + 128-132
Numbering in pencil.Collation
Additions
The following additions were written in the same hand as f. i recto and the main texts:
Folio i recto: the end of a commentary on the Lord's Prayer: 'Si septem dona Sancti Spiritus habere desideras ... post seculi laborem possideamus in s. s. amen' (12th-century) (Bloomfield 5602).
Folio ii recto: interpretations of Old Testament names and figures. Folio ii verso-iii verso: glosses on Matthew's genealogy, Liber generationis (as in Pembroke MS 67, ff. 1r-2v), divided into paragraphs, each with an initial in the same ink as the text, highlighted in yellow, sometimes with brown pen-work ornament:
- Prefatione tocius operis premisit de quo dicturus erat
- Spiritualiter per hos patriarcas ad nostram salutem Christus ueniens in mundum
- Moraliter hee quoque interpretaciones nominum
- Cum multi scripsisse euangelia legantur
- Matheus in hac uita que quatuor temporum cursu labitur
- Mateus sicut in ordine ponitur euangelium in iudea (Stegmüller 590)
- Tres tesserescedecades in generatione Christi
- Sicut per xlii. mansiones peruenerunt carnales Israelite
Folio i recto: beneath the 12th-century addition, a fragment of gloss and notes in 13th-century anglicana script.
Folios 128r-129r: miscellaneous notes, extracts on simony, against women, etc.
Binding
Late medieval half-binding of tawed skin over flush, cushion-bevelled oak boards; sewn on five bands, raised on the rounded spine. The rear board is reused from the earlier binding, which was sewn on two bands. Two marks of chain-staples at the top of the front board. Formerly a strap from a recess in the front board to a pin at the rear. Folio i was originally the front pastedown, and f. 132 was originally the rear pastedown. Folio iv is a later insertion (the recto of which is blank). Retrimmed, affecting the gloss in the outer margin of ff. 1-70 and the marginal auctoritates on ff. 71-127.
History
The manuscript was made in northern France, perhaps at Laon, and was at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds from an early stage. The manuscript comprises two physically separate volumes, which appear always to have been together.
Provenance and Acquisition
Pressmark (B.97), written by the hand of Henry Kirkestede (c. 1314-c. 1379) (f. i recto).
Title, the abbey's ex libris and press-mark, in the usual large formal textura of the 15th century (f. iv verso).
Presumably given to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1599 by William Smart (d. 1599) , though it is not recorded by Thomas James or Matthew Wren. It was certainly at Pembroke by 1600: Thomas James's number 249 is written at the head of f. 1r. The College bookplate is pasted onto f. i verso.
Part 1 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 70, ff. 1r-70v]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Collation
- Quire 14 (ff. 1-4)
- Quires 2-38 (ff. 5-20)
- Quire 46 (ff. 21-26)
- Quires 5-98 (ff. 27-66)
- Quire 104 (ff. 67-70)
Layout
140-170 × 55 mm. Text: in the second of three columns, in the middle of the page, frame and lines ruled in hardpoint, of consistent width of 55mm. 11-22 lines, written above top line, in larger script.
30 Gloss: Ruled in two columns in hardpoint on either side of the text column, of consistent width of 30mm and 55mm. Lines ruled for the gloss on an apparently ad hoc basis, or not at all.
Hand(s)
Text written by a single French scribe in protogothic bookhand. This appears to be a larger version of the gloss, which was written by the same scribe, as well as others, and which also appears in Part 2 and on ff. i recto-iii verso and 128r-129v.
Decoration
The opening word of the Gospel (Liber) is written in red capitals (f. 1r). Elsewhere, in the text, are small red initials, for a while highlighted in yellow, a few larger with ornament, one with green.
Additions
Additions in a 13th-century anglicana hand.
Part 2 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 70, ff. 71-127]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Anagrams of the names of the sources are given in the margin, often cropped.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quire 118 (ff. 71-78)
- Quire 1210-3 (ff. 79-85: 3rd and 4th leaves after f. 80, and 9th leaf after f. 84, cancelled)
- Quires 13-168 (ff. 86-117)
- Quire 176 (ff. 118-123)
- Quire 184 (ff. 124-127)
Quires 12-16 lettered at the end. Quire 18 numbered 'VIII'.
Layout
190-200 × 125-140 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, 46-61 lines, frame and line ruling, in hardpoint, written above top line.
Hand(s)
Text written by a single French scribe in protogothic bookhand, the same as was responsible for Part 1.
Decoration
Initials and lemmata highlighted in yellow.
Additional Information
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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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