Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 72
Composite manuscript, including Gospel of Mark (with gloss) with legal and other texts
Physical Description
21st-century foliation:
[i-iii] + 1-67 | 68-109 | 110-115 | 116-159 | 160-179 + [iv-vi]
Numbering in pencil.Collation
Condition
Binding
Stoakley and Son, late Hawes.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Given to
Pembroke College, Cambridge
in 1599 by
William Smart (d. 1599)
.
Part 1 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 72, ff. 1-66]
Contents
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 1-88 (ff. 1-64)
- Quire 94-1 (ff. 65-67: 2nd leaf, after f. 65, missing)
Layout
220-235 × 85 mm. Text: Ruled in crayon, 17 lines. Written above top line in long lines, on alternate lines and in larger script than the gloss, in the middle of the page at a consistent width of 85 mm.
50-55 Gloss: Ruled in crayon for 43-47 lines of gloss, not all occupied, written above top line in two columns, one either side of the text and occasionally overlapping with it at the foot. The left-hand column 50 mm; the right-hand column 55 mm. The columns are ruled independently of the text and of each other. The gloss occurs mainly in short blocks, much or all of the column being left blank.
Hand(s)
Written by two proficient scribes in English protogothic bookhand:
- 1. ff. 1r-64v for the text, and ff. 1r-61r for the gloss. Hand also found in Dublin, Trinity College, MS 492, another Bury manuscript.
- 2. ff. 65r-66r for the text, and 61v-66r for the gloss.
Decoration
In Bury style.
Anthropomorphic initial M, outlined in the same ink as that used for the text and tinted red and green, in the form of a seated monk holding red and green dragons with holy wafers in their mouths (f. 1r).
Zoomorphic initial I, outlined in the same ink as that used for the text and tinted yellow, in the form of a dragon with a holy wafer in its mouth (f. 2r).
Titulus in red and green capitals (f. 1r).
Red and pale green initials in the text.
Blocks of gloss open with decorative paraphs in the same ink as that used for the text.
History
Written at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds (perhaps CBMLC 4, B13.229).
Provenance
An ex libris by the early 13th-century 'ex libris hand' of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds (f. 1r).
Ex libris, pressmark (B.101) and title, written by the hand of Henry Kirkestede (c. 1314-c. 1379) (f. 1r).
Part 2 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 72, ff. 68-179]
A collection of fragments of much the same date, content and appearance.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Small, neat Italian gothic rotunda bookhands; ff. 116r-159r (Huguccio) written by a single scribe.
History
Provenance
Ex libris, pressmark (L.) and title, and description of the manuscript as 'quaternus', written by the hand of Henry Kirkestede (c. 1314-c. 1379) (f. 1r).
Part 2.1 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 72, ff. 68-109]
Contents
Covers Gratian , Decretum D.1-C.24 q.3.
Ends imperfectly.
Unprinted.
The text breaks off at f. 79r (donauit mihi predia quas an eius). Folios 80r-81v were filled by a later, cursive hand (In titulo de accionibus post primam diuisionem primo tractat dominus imperator de accionibus in rem...), breaking off with a note on Rescripta (end of quire).
The main scribe resumes on f. 82r, (Ex caucione etc. duobus modis potest poni tantus primo sic... inpendisse an expense ueniant).
Most of f. 87v is blank, and the bottom third of the second column of f. 100v, and f. 109r.
Folio 109 blank, with a few pencil notes on the verso.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quire 108 (ff. 68-75)
- Quires 11-126 (ff. 76-87)
- Quire 1314-1 (ff. 88-100: 1st leaf, before f. 88, missing)
- Quire 1410-1 (101-109: 10th leaf, after f. 109, missing
Layout
275-295 × 210 mm. Two columns, 60-70 lines, ruled in crayon, written above top line.
Decoration
68r-75v: spaces left for initials, 1-2 lines.
Part 2.2 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 72, ff. 110-115]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ends imperfectly, with Casus der Quaestio Nr. 22
Written as a series of paragraphs, the upper and lower margins frequently filled with commentary and annotations.
Ends with D.42.1.51.1 v. 'Missum'
Physical Description
Collation
- Quire 158-2 (ff. 110-115: 7th and 8th leaves, after f. 115, missing)
Layout
240 × 130 mm. Two columns, 65 lines, ruled in crayon, written above top line.
Part 2.3 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 72, ff. 116-159]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ends imperfectly, in Decr. p.c. 21 D.54.
Unprinted.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quire 168 (ff. 116-123)
- Quire 1712 (ff. 124-135)
- Quires 18-1910 (ff. 136-155)
- Quire 208-4 (ff. 156-159, 5th-8th leaves, after f. 159, missing
Layout
260 × 145-165 mm. Two columns, 80 lines, ruled in crayon, written above top line.
Part 2.4 [Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 72, ff. 160-179]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The text breaks off in the 3rd column of f. 178r (Ex dictis auctorum licet argumentari...Omerus), resuming on f. 178v (Quod nullus priuetur beneficio sine culpa). It occupied the whole of f. 179v.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 21-2210 (ff. 160-179)
Layout
260 × 165 mm. Four columns, 82 lines, ruled in crayon, written above top line.
Decoration
Small red or blue initials, stroked with the other colour in the Italian manner.
Many rubrics, written in or underlined with red ink.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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