Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

A catalogue of Western manuscripts and papyri at Cambridge University Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum and selected Cambridge colleges

Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 51

Hildebertus et alii

Contents

Introduction: Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 51 is a composite manuscript, with all parts probably made in England (perhaps at the Cathedral Priory in Durham) in the twelfth century. The manuscript contains four parts: Part 1 is a collection of religious poetry attributed to Hildebert of Lavardin (c. 1056 - c. 1133); Part 2 is a treatise on the Eucharist once thought to be by Gerbert of Aurillac, but now more usually attributed to Heriger of Lobbes (c. 925 - 1007); Part 3 is a collection of medical recipes that also includes a small group of culinary recipes for sauces; and Part 4 is a gloss on the Psalms. Although the medieval origin of Sidney Sussex MS 51 is harder to establish, evidence within the volume indicates that all 4 parts were bound together and were part of the Durham library collection by the late 12th or early 13th centuries. There are two lists of the contents of the volume in Durham hands of this period on the medieval endleaves, ff. [i] recto and [iii] verso. In addition, the manuscript also appears in the 1391 'Spendement' Catalogue of the books belonging to the Durham Priory community where it is recorded as follows: 'P. Uersus Hildeberti de Exposicione Missae. Tractatus de corpore Christi. Regulae de Medicinale. Glosa in Psalterium. II fo. Neve superveniens' (see Botfield, Catalogi Veteres); the 'P' siglum is present in the manuscript in the upper outer corner on f. 1r. Sidney Sussex MS 51 received renewed attention in 2015 when an article by Professors Giles Gasper and Faith Wallis described a series of culinary recipies for sauces situated in the midst of the collection of medical recipes and charms in the third part of this manuscript. The culinary recipes in Sidney Sussex MS 51 are described as being 'Salsamenta pictavensium', i.e., 'sauces of the Poitevins', or 'sauces from Poitou', essentially a collection of sauces from a region in western France. The Gasper and Wallis article describes not only the significance of the culinary recipes in Sidney Sussex MS 51, but also discusses the medical recipe collection which surrounds the culinary recipes and explores the evidence for medical recipe collection and medical practice in 12th century England. During the preparation of this catalogue record for the Curious Cures project, further information was discovered which appears to confirm a theory about the identity of the donor of the manuscript to Sidney Sussex College. Samuel Ward (1572-1643) , master of the college 1610-1643 and donor of other books and manuscripts to the College library, has long been suspected to be the donor of Sidney Sussex 51. However, the book does not bear any of the typical indications of his ownership, nor is it explicitly described in any of the records of his donations to the College. Nevertheless, it seems very likely that Sidney Sussex MS 51 can be identified as a book seen in Ward's possession before 1625 by Ward's friend, the author and Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher (1581-1656) . In Ussher's An answer to a challenge made by a Iesuite in Ireland (1625), Ussher wrote (abbreviations expanded, spelling modernised): '[i]n the libraries of my worthy friends, Sir Robert Cotton, (that noble Baronett, so renowmed[sic] for his great care in collecting and preserving all antiquities) and Dr Ward, the learned Master of Sidney Colledge[sic] in Cambridge; I met with an ancient Treatise of the Sacrament (beginning thus: Sicut ante nos quidam sapiens dixit, cujus sententiam probamus, licet nomen ignoremus.) which is the same with that in the Iesuites Colledge[sic] at Lovaine, blindely[sic] fathered upon Berengarius'. This quotation matches the text of the treatise on the Eucharist in Sidney Sussex MS 51 ff. 17r-26v. The text that Ussher is referring to is the Dicta Herigeri abbatis de corpore et sanguine Domini now usually attributed to Heriger of Lobbes, but which was for a long time believed to be by Berengar of Tours. The Dicta Herigeri survives in very few manuscript copies, and the likelihood is that the one Ussher saw in Ward's hands is the same manuscript that came into the possession of Ward's former college. The only difficulty that remains is that Ward is known to have donated a number of manuscripts and printed books to the College library. A list of these is preserved in the college archives, but it does not appear to describe a manuscript identifiable as Sidney Sussex MS 51. It may be that Ward gave the manuscript as a separate donation, or that left Ward's possession and came to Sidney Sussex indirectly by some other route, as happened with many of Ward's personal papers (see Todd, 1985). The manuscript had certainly arrived at the College by c. 1697, when its presence was recorded in Bernard's Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697), p. 104, no. 714. Dr Sarah Gilbert| Project Cataloguer| Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries References
G. E. M. Gasper, and F. Wallis, ‘Salsamenta Pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England’, English Historical Review, 131.553 (2016), 1353–85
J. Ussher An answer to a challenge made by a Iesuite in Ireland (1625)
J. Raine, and B. Botfield (eds.), Catalogi Veteres Librorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm. Catalogues of the Library of Durham Cathedral, at Various Periods, from the Conquest to the Dissolution, Including Catalogues of the Library of the Abbey of Hulne, and of the MSs. Preserved in the Library of Bishop Cosin, at Durham, Publications of the Surtees Society 7 (1834)
M. Todd, 'The Samuel Ward Papers at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 8.5 (1985), pp. 582-592

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: Neue superueniens
Form: codex
Support: Parchment of variable thickness and quality throughout.
Extent: Codex: i + 3 16 | 10 | 20 | 58 + i leaves. 225 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

20th-century foliation

[a] + [i]-[iii] + 1-16 | 17-26 | 27-46 | 47-104 + [b]

Foliated in pencil in Hindu-Arabic numerals in the upper outer corner of the first recto of most quires, and occasionally on intermediary leaves. The endleaves that lacked official designations in this foliation sequence were assigned temporary folio designations enclosed in [square brackets] in this record in November 2023 in order to produce a functional TEI-XML catalogue record for this item.

Collation

A composite manuscript with the quires and Parts arranged as follows:

  • Three medieval parchment flyleaves (ff. [i]-[iii]) +
  • Quires 1-28 (ff. 1-16) |
  • Quire 310 (ff. 17-26) |
  • Quires 4-510 (ff. 27-46) |
  • Quires 6-98 (ff. 47-78)
  • Quire 1010 (ff. 79-88)
  • Quire 1112 (ff. 89r-100v)
  • Quire 124 (ff. 101-104)

Three medieval parchment flyleaves + 1-28 | 310 | 4-510 | 6-98 1010 1112 124

No leaf signatures common to the entire manuscript.

No quire signatures common to the entire manuscript.

 No catchwords common to the entire manuscript.

Additions

On f. [i] recto, a former shelfmark 'K.3.6' in ink, struck out.

On f. [i] recto, a former shelfmark 'Δ.3.6' in ink.

On f. [i] recto, the M. R. James Catalogue number '51' in pencil.

On f. [iii] verso, a former shelfmark 'K.3.6' in ink.

On f. 1r the letter 'P' near the upper outer corner, this letter corresponds to the siglum for this manuscript in the Durham 'Spendement' catalogue of 1391.

Binding

18th-century binding. Fully bound in leather over paste- or mill-boards with matching decoration in blind to front and rear covers. Covers are decorated at their perimeters with a narrow double-fillet frame, and directly inside that frame, an arcaded roll, with each arcade enclosing a fleur-de-lis.

Three raised bands on spine. Spine is almost completely capped at head and tail, head and tail bands mostly covered, only a single line of stitching in a cream-brown yarn visible. Spine compartments except the one with the title label are decorated with a geometric roll of overlapping ovals and diamonds. Leather title label on spine with decorative gold fillets at its upper and lower perimeter and a title 'HILDEBERT: ET ALII M.S.' tooled in gold. Small printed paper label '51' fixed to the spine with an adhesive.

Cover material over the head, fore, and tail edges of the boards decorated with a hatched roll.

Modern parchment bifolia at each end of the volume used for the pastedowns and the outermost flyleaves (ff. [a] and [b]).

The present f. 104 was perhaps a pastedown in a former binding or the outermost leaf in an unbound booklet as there is significant discoloration on f. 104v.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Perhaps made at, and certainly owned from an early stage by Durham Cathedral Priory . Sidney Sussex MS 51 is listed in the 'Spendement' Catalogue of 1391 and the updated catalogue of 1416where it is described as: '‘P. Uersus Hildeberti de Exposicione Missae. Tractatus de corpore Christi. Regulae de Medicinale. Glosa in Psalterium. II fo. Neve superveniens’' (see Botfield, Catalogi Veteres). The 'P' siglum is recorded in the manuscript in the upper outer corner on f. 1r. Shrader, in his survey of the survivng copies of Heriger's works on the Eucharist seems to suggest that this MS (or perhaps the first part thereof) is among the books listed in the late 12th century catalogue of Durham Cathedral Library preserved in  Durham, Cathedral Library, MS B.IV.24 ('The Durham Cantor's Book') ff. 1r-2v and printed in Botfield, Catalogi Veteres, pp. 1-10, as the entry 'Epistolæ Hildeberti, iv paria' in MS B.IV.24, f. 1va (Botfield, Catalogi Veteres, p. 4), but this idea is considered independently and rejected by Wallis and Gasper who did not believe Sidney Sussex MS 51 was a close match for any of the volumes recorded in MS B.IV.24.

B. Botfield (ed.), Catalogi Veteres Librorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm, Surtees Society vii (1838), pp. 4 24, 101
F. Wallis, and G. E. M. Gasper, ‘Salsamenta Pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England’, English Historical Review, 131.553 (2016), pp. 1353–85, esp. p. 1354

Owned by John Pilkington who added the inscription '‘Sum Iohannis Pilkingtoni Dunelmensis 1591’' to the volume twice on ff. 1r and 47r. John Pilkington was an Archdeacon of Durham from c. 1563-1602 and was the brother of James Pilkington (1520-1576), Bishop of Durham. In addition to his inscriptions in MS 51, Pilkington also added his name to Sidney Sussex MSS 30 and 55, and may have encountered MS 92.

M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895)
F. Wallis, and G. E. M. Gasper, ‘Salsamenta Pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England’, English Historical Review, 131.553 (2016), pp. 1353–1385

Probably owned by Samuel Ward (1572-1643) , master of the college 1610-1643. It seems very likely that MS Sidney 51 was seen in the possession of Samuel Ward by Ward's friend, the author and Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher (1581-1656) . In Ussher's An answer to a challenge made by a Iesuite in Ireland (1625), Ussher wrote (abbreviations expanded, typesetting modernised): '[i]n the libraries of my worthy friends, Sir Robert Cotton, (that noble Baronett, so renowmed[sic] for his great care in collecting and preserving all antiquities) and Dr Ward, the learned Master of Sidney Colledge[sic] in Cambridge; I met with an ancient Treatise of the Sacrament (beginning thus: Sicut ante nos quidam sapiens dixit, cujus sententiam probamus, licet nomen ignoremus.) which is the same with that in the Iesuites Colledge[sic] at Lovaine, blindely[sic] fathered upon Berengarius'. The quotation that Ussher gives, 'Sicut ante nos quidam sapiens dixit, cujus sententiam probamus, licet nomen ignoremus', matches the text of the treatise on the Eucharist in Sidney MS 51, ff. 17r-26v. The text that Ussher is referring to is the Dicta Herigeri abbatis de corpore et sanguine Domini now usually attributed to Heriger of Lobbes , but which was for a long time believed to be by Berengar of Tours. The Dicta Herigeri survives in very few manuscript copies and the likelihood is that the one Ussher saw in Ward's hands is the same manuscript that came into the possession of Ward's former college.

J. Ussher, An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland (1625), pp. 17-18

It has not been established with absolute certainty when or by what means Sidney Sussex College acquired MS 51, although a plausible argument can be made that the volume was an unrecorded donation by former master Samuel Ward (1572-1643) . A list of Ward's donations is preserved in the college archives, but it does not appear to describe a manuscript identifiable as Sidney Sussex MS 51. It may be that Ward gave the manuscript as a separate donation, or that left Ward's possession and came to Sidney Sussex indirectly by some other route, as happened with many of Ward's personal papers (see Todd, 1985). The manuscript had certainly arrived at the College by c. 1697, when its presence was recorded in Bernard's Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697), p. 104, no. 714. For an account of the early history of the library of Sidney Sussex College, see Rogers, 'Early History of Sidney Sussex College Library', esp. n. 53; Rogers points out that MS 51 is likely to have been given by Ward on the strength of MS 51's prior ownership by John Pilkington, who had also owned known Ward donation MS 55.

N. Rogers, 'The Early History of Sidney Sussex College Library', in D. E. D. Beales and H. B. Nisbet (eds.), Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: Historical Essays in Commemoration of the Quartercentenary (Woodbridge, 1996), pp. 75-88

Part 1: Versus Hildeberti [Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 51, ff. [i]-[iii] + 1-16]

Contents

1. [i] recto
⟨Late 12th or early 13th century list of the contents of the volume⟩
Language(s): Latin

Full transcription: Uersus hildeberti in expositione misse | Tractatus de corpore Christi qui sic incipit Sicut ante nos | Epistole quedam | Regulae de phisica | Glose in psalterium

2. [iii] verso
List of contents
Language(s): Latin

Late 12th or early 13th-century, with 15th-century additions.

Full transcription:| In hoc uolumine continentur hec| Uersus hideberti in expositionem misse \uersus de eukaristia de baptismo et de gradibus consanguinitatis ectc in eis nulli coniunguntur vt conatur(?) / | Tractatus de corpore Christi . | Corrector ecclesie | Regule de phisica \et nomina Ii et bonas medicinas complect/ | Glose in psalterium \compendiose/

3. 1r-15v
Versus Hildeberti Hildebert of Tours
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 1r Incipiunt uersus Hildeberti cennomanensis episcopi
3.1. 1r-13r
Versus de explanatione misse Hildebert of Tours
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 1r de explanatione misse
Incipit: 1r Scribere proposui quid mystica sacra priorum
Explicit: 13r Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi .miserere. ter.| Ad christi reditura fidem iudea notatur | Cum pater ad dextram cedit . et explet opus ||
Final rubric: 13r Explicit explanatio misse
PL 171.1177-1193
3.2. 14r
Uersus de corpore et sanguine domini Hildebert of Tours
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 13r Uersus de corpore et sanguine domini
Incipit: 13r Melchisedech domino panem uinumque libauit
Explicit: 14r Ad propriumque caput tria sacramenta redisse
Final rubric: 14r Explicit
Edited in A. B. Scott (ed.), Hildeberti cenonmannensis episcopi carmina minora, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana: Scriptores Romani (Leipzig, 1969) as 39.IV, pp. 30-32
3.3. 14r
Uersus de baptismate Hildebert of Tours
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 14r Uersus de baptismate
Incipit: 14r Hostia . coniugium . baptismus . qualia primo | talia nec . res ipsa redit . euanuit umbra
Explicit: 14r Sic ad se baptisma redit cessante figura | Sic inuoluit aquis sua circumcisio iura
Edited in A. B. Scott (ed.), Hildeberti cenonmannensis episcopi carmina minora, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana: Scriptores Romani (Leipzig, 1969) as 39.II, pp. 28-29
3.4. 14r-15r
Uersus quare non copulentur in coniugio consanguinei Hildebert of Tours
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 14r Uersus quare non copulentur in coniugio consanguinei
Incipit: 14v Baptismalis quedam forma fuit in diluuio | Huic successit huic cessura carnis circumcisio
Explicit: 15r Ut sacra sub christo dilectio porrigeretur | Femina sub christo sic nubere lege iubetur
Final rubric: 15r Explicit
Edited in A. B. Scott (ed.), Hildeberti cenonmannensis episcopi carmina minora, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana: Scriptores Romani (Leipzig, 1969) as 39.I and 39.III, pp. 28-30
3.5. 15r-15v
Cur bono male uel malo bene Hildebert of Tours
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 15r-15v Est aliquando bono bene de grauibus superetur | Est male . quo maculas laue . aduersis ue[sic] probetur
Explicit: 15v Est aliquando malo bene quo grauius feriatur | Est male . quo redeat . uel ut hic quoque iam patiatur

Folio 16 blank.

Edited in A. B. Scott (ed.), Hildeberti cenonmannensis episcopi carmina minora, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana: Scriptores Romani (Leipzig, 1969) as 3, p. 1

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: Neue superueniens
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH).
Extent: Codex: 3 + 16 leaves.

Collation

  • Three medieval parchment flyleaves (ff. [i]-[iii]) +
  • Quires 1-28 (ff. 1-16)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

All leaves are in good condition.

Layout

Folios have informal layouts.

170 × 80 mm. Folios 1-16 are in crayon, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, the mise-en-page arranged in the typical western European medieval fashion for verse, with the opening initial of each line standing slightly apart from the rest of the letters on that line. Written above top line and typically 26 lines to the page.

Hand(s)

Written in a protogothic minuscule typical of scribal work produced in the 12th century in England and northern France

Decoration

Plain initials in red at the major and minor divisions of the texts.

Opening and closing rubrics in red.

History

Origin: 12th century, probably middle or second half. ; Probably England.

Part 2: Treatise on the Eucharist [Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 51, ff. 17-26 ]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 17r-26v
Dicta Herigeri abbatis de corpore et sanguine Domini Heriger of Lobbes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 17r Sicut ante nos quidam sapiens dixit cuius sententiam probamus licet nomen ignoremus
Explicit: 26v profuturum resuscitandis in generali resurrectione . Liquet igitur non obnoxium secessui esse

Often attributed to Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) and printed under his name in PL CXXXIX.179-188, but this text, and other texts on similar subjects and with similar titles have circulated with various authorial attributions since the medieval period. This text is largely comprised of excerpts from Patristic authors and is, according to Shrader, the later and more sophisticated of the two surviving works by Heriger on the eucharist; see Shrader, ‘Heriger’s Treatises on the Eucharist’, and footnotes therein for a summary of the various related texts, their surviving manuscripts, their likely authors, and directions to further reading.

This manuscript is part of Shrader's 'Group C' in his typology of the transmission of Heriger's eucharistic writings, see esp., Shrader, 'Heriger's Treatises', pp. 155-156

PL 139.179-188 (attributed to Gerbert of Aurillac, i.e., Pope Sylvester II)
C. R. Shrader, ‘Heriger’s Treatises on the Eucharist’, in Canon Law, Religion, and Politics: Liber Amicorum Robert Somerville, ed. by U.-R. Blumenthal, D. A. Winroth, and P. Landau (2012), pp. 147–62

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 18r: dignatus fuerit aperire
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 10 leaves.

Collation

  • Quire 310 (ff. 17-26)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

 No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

Leaves are in good condition.

Layout

170 × 85 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format and written typically 26 lines to the page and above top line.

Hand(s)

Written in a protogothic minuscule typical of scribal work produced in the 12th century in England and northern France

Decoration

Names of authorities, e.g., Ambrose, Augustine, Fulgentius written in red.

Empty space for an opening initial 'S' on f. 17r.

History

Origin: 12th century, probably middle or second half. ; Probably England.

Part 3: Recipes [Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 51, ff. 27-46]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 27r-46v
Recipes
Language(s): Latin with occasional words in Old English, Arabic and Old French
1.1. 27r-39r
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 27r Ad caput purgandum uel uocem exclarandum uel uuam exsiccandam uel glandulas . absincij fasciculum unum alterum fasciculum marubij
Explicit: 39r da uulerato bibere

170 medical recipes in head-to-toe order.

F. Wallis, and G. E. M. Gasper, ‘Salsamenta Pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England’, English Historical Review, 131.553 (2016), pp. 1353–1385
eTK 0031L (t0006340000)
1.2. 39r
Alchemical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 39r Sal sacerdotale utebantur
Explicit: 39r sit deus usque tui

Three alchemical recipes.

F. Wallis, and G. E. M. Gasper, ‘Salsamenta Pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England’, English Historical Review, 131.553 (2016), pp. 1353–1385
1.3. 39r-39v
Culinary recipes
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 39r Incipit diuersa genera pictauensium salsamentorum
Incipit: 39r Petrosilini et saluie succum cum aceto distemperatum cum pipere et allio temperatum
Explicit: 39v Cinnamomi zedoarii ana equaliter pipperis dupplum

16 culinary recipes.

Edited, translated and discussed in F. Wallis, and G. E. M. Gasper, 'Salsamenta Pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England', English Historical Review, 131.553 (2016), pp. 1353–1385
1.4. 39v-45r
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 39v Unguentum popoleon
Explicit: 45r uinum calidum bibat

57 medical recipes, in miscellaneous order.

ff. 45v-46v blank.

F. Wallis, and G. E. M. Gasper, 'Salsamenta Pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England', English Historical Review, 131.553 (2016), pp. 1353–1385

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 28r:
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 20 leaves.

Collation

Quires 4-510 (ff. 27-46)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

No quire signatures particular to this Part.

No catchwords particular to this Part.

Condition

Leaves are generally in good condition.

Layout

180 × 85 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and lines. Ruled in single-column format, typically 26 lines to the page and written above top line.

Hand(s)

Folios 27r-45r l. 4 written in a protogothic minuscule typical of scribal work produced in the 12th century in England and northern France.

Folio 45r ll. 5-8 written by another scribe in a protogothic minuscule typical of scribal work produced in the 12th century in England and northern France; M. R. James also noted the change of hand, and suggested that the text on f. 45r ll. 5-8 is a 'slightly later addition'.

M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895), no. 51

Decoration

No significant decoration in this Part.

History

Origin: 12th century. ; England.

Part 4: Gloss on the Psalter [Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 51, ff. 47r-104v]

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. 47r-100v
Commentary on the Psalms Cassiodorus Senator
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 47r Prophecia est inspiracio diuina
Explicit: 100v incarnationem filii futuram non intellegerem michi proFUTURAM
2. 100v-102r
Commentaria in Cantica Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 100v Confitebor . canticum isaie prophetae . hic asscribitur[sic] titulus . canticum isaiae . quia isaias cum in precedentibus sue prophetiae uerbis casum hominis
Explicit: 102r uel in peccatis perseuerarem . incarnationem filii futuram non intellegerem michi profuturam||
PL 116.695-714

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 48r: Quare fremuerunt
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (HFFH)
Extent: Codex: 58 leaves.

Collation

  • Quires 6-98 (ff. 47-78)
  • Quire 1010 (ff. 79-88)
  • Quire 1112 (ff. 89r-100v)
  • Quire 124 (ff. 101-104)

No leaf signatures particular to this Part.

Quires 6-10 numbered in ink in Roman numerals in the centre of the lower margin of the last verso of those quires, each roman numeral framed with small dots and flourishes extending from the cardinal points around the number.

No catchwords particular to this part.

Condition

In good condition. Some leaves have an irregular size and shape due to the natural shape of the parchment selected for preparation as the writing substrate, e.g., f. 96.

Layout

175 × 90 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame and lines. Ruled in double-column format, typically 39 or 40 lines to the column and written above top line.

Hand(s)

Written by a single scribe in a compressed protogothic minuscule typical of scribal work in England and northern France in the 12th century.

Decoration

Plain initials in red at the major and minor divisions of the text - in several places where the pigment has been more thickly applied, some of the pigment has oxidised and there are small patches of the initial that are now a dark metallic grey colour, e.g., the initial 'Q' on f. 59v.

History

Origin: 12th century. ; England, perhaps at Durham Cathedral Priory.

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue record draws on M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895), no. 51, pp. 36-37

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Bibliography

    Catalogi Veteres Librorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm. Catalogues of the Library of Durham Cathedral, at Various Periods, from the Conquest to the Dissolution, Including Catalogues of the Library of the Abbey of Hulne, and of the MSs. preserved in the Library of Bishop Cosin, at Durham Publications of the Surtees Society, (1834) A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, James, M.R. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1895) Durham Cathedral manuscripts to the end of the twelfth century, Mynors, R.A.B. (Oxford, Printed for the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral at the University Press, 1939) Medieval libraries of Great Britain: a list of surviving books Royal Historical Society guides and handbooks, Ker, N.R. (London, Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1964) The Early History of Sidney Sussex College Library Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: Historical Essays in Commemoration of the Quartercentenary, Rogers, Nicholas (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 75-88, The Boydell Press, 1996) Heriger's Treatises on the Eucharist Canon Law, Religion, and Politics: Liber Amicorum Robert Somerville, Shrader, Charles R. (Washington, 147-162, Catholic University of America Press, 2012, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cam/detail.action?docID=3134984) Salsamenta pictavensium: Gastronomy and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England English Historical Review, Gasper, Giles E. M.Wallis, Faith (131, 553, 1353-1385, 2016, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26364416) The Culture of Food in England 1200-1500, Woolgar, C. M. (Yale University Press, 2016)

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