Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS LC II.174
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77213
Contents
Language(s): Greek
The text ends with the Office of Saturday, ed. J. Lamphire, Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrewes episcop. Winton. Preces privatæ Græce et Latine, Oxonii 1675, p. 222
Physical Description
- there are two unnumbered blank pages, not consistent with the sequence of numbers: [17a], [143a]
- there are unnumbered pages consistent with the sequence of numbers: [88], [101]-[102], [109], [116]-[117], [121], [129], [164]-[166]
- in two cases there is a repetition of the same page number: 18[a], 143[b]; in the second case, after p. 143 there is a blank unnumbered page ( p. [143a] ), then the following page, instead of 145, is numbered again 143 ( p. 143[b] ), and then comes a page numbered 146 ( p. 146).
Collation
The quires have not been numbered and have been sewn very tightly, therefore it is not possible to reconstruct the collation with certainty.
Condition
Layout
The layout is not regular. A single column of 27-33 lines. 120-130 × ca. 65 mm.
Hand(s)
f. i verso - p. 168 Hand A: the text was written by Samuel Wright , secretary to Lancelot Andrewes, as is stated in a note by Richard Drake written on f. i verso (see History). The script is a minuscule, regular in size, accurately written.
The text is written in brown ink.
Hand B: another hand, datable to the 17th c., wrote parts of the text ( ff. i verso-ii verso, pp. 6-7, 38), and additions throughout the volume (e.g. pp. 1 l.1, 105, 119), and indicated along the text the Scriptural sources.
The ink is brown.
Brightman (1903, p. xviii) thinks that hand B intervened in the manuscript after Samuel Wright and before 1675, the date of the first edition of the Greek text.
Decoration
Plain thick initials in brown ink.
Additions
Richard Drake indicated in black ink, passim, throughout the text, the Scriptural sources.
On f. i recto and p. [168b] there are notes in Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
On the stub at the end of the manuscript, p. [168d], in the main scribe's hand, Δόξα Πατρὶ καὶ Υἱῷ καὶ Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ ὡς ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ καὶ νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων ἀμήν.
Binding
Modern western binding, made by Desmond Shaw in Cambridge in 1981 (see the right pastedown, where is pasted a fragment of the previous leather cover). Full leather cover on millboards. Gold tooling on spine with title ‘ Wright Andrewes Devotions’.
116 × 108 × 24 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Samuel Wright gave the manuscript to Richard Drake (1609-1681) .
It is not clear how the manuscript came to Pembroke College library. Despite having belonged to Richard Drake, it does not appear in the list of the manuscripts donated by him to the College contained in Matthew Wren's Benefactors' Book (Cambridge, Pembroke College Library, LC II.77). On the left pastedown is pasted the Pembroke College bookplate with the date of 1879.
Additional Information
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Availability
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Bibliography
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Two answers to Cardinal Perron: and other
miscellaneous works of Lancelot Andrewes. Library of Anglo-Catholic theology, (Oxford, J.H. Parker, 1854)
The preces privatæ of Lancelot Andrewes /
translated with an introduction and notes by F.E.
Brightman., (London, Methuen and Co, 1903)
A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in
the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge, James, M. R. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1905)
The preces privatae of Lancelot Andrewes,
Bishop of Winchester / selections from the translation by
F.E. Brightman, (London, Methuen, 1908)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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