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Cambridge, Queens' College, MS 16

Hieronymus Super Mathaeum

Contents

1. 1r-87v
Jerome, Commentary on Matthew
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 1r: Incipit prefatio commentarii sancti Ieronimi presbiteri super Matheum
Incipit: 1r: Plures fuisse qui euangelia scripserunt
Explicit: 87v: non ignorat eam diem in quo se scit futurum cum apostolis
Final rubric: 87v: Explicit liber .III. commentarii beati Ieronimi presbiteri super Matheum
2. 87v-92v
Caesarius of Arles, Epistola ad quosdam germanos
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 87v: Incipit exhortacio sancti cesarii episcopi ad monachos
Incipit: 87v: Vereor uenerabiles in Christo filii
Explicit: 92v: Vigeatis in Christo uenerabiles filii
Final rubric: 92v: Explicit exhortatio sancti cesarii episcopi
3. 92v-101r
Augustine, De utilitate poenitentiae (serm. 351)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 92v: Incipit liber beati Augustini episcopi de penitentia
Incipit: 92v: Quam sit utilis et necessaria
Explicit: 101r: Ergo dimitte incertum et tene certum
Final rubric: 101r: Explicit liber beati Augustini episcopi de penitentia
4. 101r-101v
⟨Ps.-Adalgerus (Ps.-Isidore)⟩ , ⟨Commonitiuncula ad sororem⟩
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 101r: Cesarius facit hos .vi. sermones cui liber de obedientie bono eiusque laudibus. Primum de caritate
Incipit: 101r: Tuae non immemor petitionis hanc commonitiunculam pro animae
Explicit: 101v: Et iterum. In hoc cognoscent||
( CPL 1219)

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: re uitreum
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFHF)
Extent: iii + 101 + iii leaves. 245 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

Late 19th/early 20th-century foliation:

1-101

Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the first leaf of each quire, possibly by M.R. James. Full foliation added after digitisation.

Collation

The manuscript comprises one quire composed of four leaves and one of two leaves, followed by twelve quires composed of eight leaves. There is one leaf missing in quire 14.

  • Quire 14 (ff. 1-4)
  • Quire 22 (ff. 5-6)
  • Quire 38 (ff. 7-14)
  • Quire 48 (ff. 15-22)
  • Quire 58 (ff. 23-30)
  • Quire 68 (ff. 31-38)
  • Quire 78 (ff. 39-46)
  • Quire 88 (ff. 47-54)
  • Quire 98 (ff. 55-62)
  • Quire 108 (ff. 63-70)
  • Quire 118 (ff. 71-78)
  • Quire 128 (ff. 79-86)
  • Quire 138 (ff. 87-94)
  • Quire 148-1 (ff. 95-101: last leaf missing)

14 22 3-138 148-1 (8 missing)

Quires numbered 1-13 in a 20th-century hand (quires 1-2 counted as one quire).

Layout

175 × 125 mm. Two columns, 30 lines, frame and lines ruled in brown crayon. Pricked in the inner margins (the outer margins trimmed). Written above top line. Some columns have last words flourished with pen-drawings.

Hand(s)

Protogothic bookhand; quotations flagged by marginal diples shaped like ‘s’; various symbols in margins (positura, signes-de-renvoi).

Decoration

Arabesque initials in red and green (e.g. P, 19 ll., f. 1r; C, 4 ll., f. 66v; Q, 5 ll., f. 92v).

Plain initials in green (P, 5 ll., f. 93r; T, 3 ll., f. 101r).

One-line red Roman numerals in margins for chapters.

Additions

Occasional nota marks. Marginal notes in at least two different hands on ff. 12v, 16v, 46v, 56v and 65r. A late-15th-century note in the upper margin of f. 44r reads 'Hic incipietur in refectorio.' Table of contents in a 17th-century hand on verso of one of the previous flyleaves.

Binding

Rebound in 20th-century archival calfskin, sewn on two bands.

Previous 16th-century binding sewn on four bands. Flyleaves from this binding now kept separately, sewn together in a paper wrapper.

History

Origin: 12th century ; England

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue entry draws on the description in M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the western manuscripts in the library of Queens' College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1905).

Availability

For further information on the availability of the manuscript, please contact Queens' Old Library and Special Collections.

Bibliography

    A catalogue of the library of the college of St. Margaret and St. Bernard, commonly called Queen's College in the University of Cambridge, Horne, Thomas Hartwell (London, Society of Queen's College, 1827) A descriptive catalogue of the western manuscripts in the library of Queens' College, Cambridge, James, M.R. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1905)

Funding of Cataloguing

Dr Virge James in memory of the late Dr Nigel James (Queens' matric. 1960)

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