Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.23
Compilation of theological texts and sermons
Physical Description
20th-century foliation
[i-ii] + 1-4 + 5-78 | 79-86 | 87-136 \137-144/ 145-146 | 147-242 | 243-302 + [iii-iv]
Written in pencil in the top right-hand corner of the recto side of each leaf, by an unidentified hand.
19th-century foliation
1-296 (for ff. 5-302)
Written in pencil in the bottom right-hand of the recto side of the leaf, at intervals, by an unidentified hand.
Collation
This collation formula differs from those written into the manuscript, insofar as it counts a 13th-century gathering of eight leaves (ff. 137-144) as a separate quire (Quire 13). Although it is placed within another quire (Quire 12), it is of different date and place of origin and must consequently have been a later addition.
- Quires 1-512 (ff. 5-64)
- Quire 614 (ff. 65-78) |
- Quire 78 (ff. 79-86) |
- Quires 8-1112 (ff. 87-134)
- Quire 124 (ff. 135-136, 145-146) \
- Quire 138 (ff. 137-144) /
- Quires 14-2112 (ff. 147-242) |
- Quires 22-2612 (ff. 243-302)
Additions
Inscription over two lines, now erased and largely illegible (f. 1v).
List of contents, the rubric and first two lines written by one hand, and the rest apparently by Roger Marchall (see Provenance) (f. 1v)
Notes on the foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan orders, and a couplet on the foundation of the Premonstratensian order, all written by a 15th-century hand, apparently extracted from a chronicle ('Cronic' Marc'') (f. 4v).
Two sets of quire signatures ('A-Z Aa', including front endleaves as 'A'; and '1-25') in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, and '+' in the same position on the first leaf after the centre of the quire, written in pencil by two hands of the 19th/20th century (no longer indicative: see Collation).
Binding
Half morocco over pasteboards and brown paper covers, with title, classmark and Cambridge University Library stamp tooled in gold on the spine. 'Bound by H. Wicks, ULC [i.e. Cambridge University Library'], 12 January 1916': note by C.E. Sayle on the rear pastedown (see also front pastedown).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
A hitherto unidentified manuscript formerly used or in the possession of Roger Marchall (fl. 1436-1477) , doctor of medicine: a rubric written in his characteristic handwriting (f. 87r), another emended by his hand (f. 198r), and apparently also a list of contents likewise completed by his hand (f. 1v), the latter confirming that the manuscript was in its current form by Marchall's time. For further details of Marchall and other manuscripts containing his handwriting, see L. Voigts, 'A doctor and his books: the manuscripts of Roger Marchall (d. 1477)', in R. Beadle and A.J. Piper (eds.), New science out of old books: studies in manuscripts and early printed books in honour of A.I. Doyle (Aldershot, 1995) pp. 249-314
Erasure of 'papae' in rubrics indicative of the manuscript remaining in England after the Reformation (ff. 5r, 28r, 77r).
Sir Thomas Knyvett (1539-1618) of Ashwellthorpe, book collector: characteristic shelfmark 'Sed: 18' (f. 300v). No. 18a in the catalogue of Knyvett's manuscripts made shortly after his death (now Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2.30), where it is described as 'Gregory Pastoralia etc' (see McKitterick (1978), p. 159).
Thomas Knyvett (1596-1658) , grandson of Sir Thomas Knyvett (1539-1618): inherited this manuscript together with Knyvett's collection. See McKitterick (1978), pp. 33-34.
John Knyvett (1623-1673) , great-grandson of Sir Thomas Knyvett (1539-1618) and son of Thomas Knyvett (1596-1658): inherited this manuscript together with Knyvett's collection. See McKitterick (1978), p. 36.
Thomas Knyvett (d. 1693) , great-great-grandson of Sir Thomas Knyvett (1539-1618) and son of John Knyvett (1623-1673), inherited this manuscript together with Knyvett's collection. Thomas died without heir and the Knyvett library was fragmented after his death: 57 of Knyvett's manuscripts had been acquired by John Moore [see below] by 1698. See McKitterick (1978), p. 37.
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 77 (f. 2r) in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I (1660-1727) . The manuscript appears never to have contained the 'Royal Library' donation bookplate.
Part 1 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.23, ff. 5-78]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Rubric added by 15th-century hand to mark the end of Book One and beginning of Book Two, perhaps to replace another in the margins that had been partially trimmed (f. 12r). The same hand also added the final rubric. Both the opening and final rubrics have been partially erased, removing 'papae' from both and some other text at the end.
Added by a 15th-century hand.
Not among the texts described by Max Förster, 'Die Legende vom Trinubium der hl. Anna', in Probleme der Englischen Sprache und Kultur: Festschrift Johannes Hoops zum 60. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Kollegen, ed. by W. Keller (Heidelberg: Winter, 1925), pp. 105-30.
Not among the texts described by Max Förster, 'Die Legende vom Trinubium der hl. Anna', in Probleme der Englischen Sprache und Kultur: Festschrift Johannes Hoops zum 60. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Kollegen, ed. by W. Keller (Heidelberg: Winter, 1925), pp. 105-30.
Added by a 15th-century hand.
Added by a 15th-century hand.
Final rubric added by a 15th-century hand, with 'papae' erased later.
Presented as distinctiones.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 1-512 (ff. 5-64)
- Quire 614 (ff. 65-78)
Leaf signatures ('a-c, e, [f?], d'), with Roman numerals.
Catchwords by the main scribe, mostly trimmed, with only two remaining (ff. 40v, 52v), the latter enclosed in a red box.Layout
235-240 × 160 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and line (lines now largely erased). Two columns, 60-62 lines to the page, written below top line.
Hand(s)
Written in Anglicana formata.
Decoration
Three- to twelve-line initials in red with contrasting blue infill and marginal flourishing.
Quotations from the Gospels underlined in red in the Homiliae
Paraph marks in red.
Additions
The text of the Homiliae are subdivided by litterae notabiliores added to the margins by a 15th-century hand.
History
Part 2 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.23, ff. 78-86]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The index begins on the last leaf of the preceding quire (left blank after copy the Homiliae) and continued on an additional quire. The entries are keyed to the text by the number of the homily and letters inserted into the margins.
Subject headings are written in the fore-edge margins. The entries are keyed to the text by chapter number (at the end of the entry) and letter (written in the gutter margin). The copy of the Dieta salutis that follows contains neither chapter numbers nor subdivisions marked by letters.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quire 78 (ff. 79-86)
Layout
230-240 × 190 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame only. Ruled for two columns, however the index to the Dieta salutis is written in a single column, with subject headings and letters extending beyond the bounding lines at both sides. 49-53 lines to the page, written above top line.
Hand(s)
Written in Secretary script by a single hand.
Decoration
Gaps left for two- or three-line initials.
History
Part 3 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.23, ff. 87-136, 145-146]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Opening rubric added by Roger Marchall (see Provenance).
Dominica in Sexagesima ('Libenter gloriabor') and Dominica in Quinquagesima ('Caritas paciens') in reverse order (f. 132r). Dominica quinta post Pascha ('Religio munda et immaculata') not marked by decorated initial (f. 133r). Dominica duodecima post Pentecosten begins 'Iusticia vestra ex deo est . I . Cor. iii' rather than 'Sufficientia nostra ex Deo est' (II Cor. 3:5) (f. 134r). Dominica decimaseptima post Pentecosten ('In caritate radicati') not marked by decorated initial (f. 134v). Additional intial within Dominica vigesimasecunda post Pentecosten ('Primo igitur') (f. 135r). Text ends without final passage: 'Tertio debemus esse radiosi per contemplationem quaere in materia de Contemplatione'. Folios 145r-146v blank.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 8-1112 (ff. 87-134)
- Quire 124 (ff. 135-136, 145-146)
Leaf signatures in various forms: '1-6' (Quires 8, 10, 11), 'a i-a vi' (Quire 9), none (Quire 12).
Catchwords, mostly in simple banderols.Layout
205-210 × 145-150 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and line. Two columns. 46 lines to the page, written below top line.
Hand(s)
Copied by three hands in Anglicana formata, each showing the influence of Secretary, changing over at mid-points within quires, suggesting close collaboration in production: ff. 87r-117r (changing mid-sentence, left-hand column, line 21), ff. 117r-123v and ff. 124r-136v.
Closing rubric on f. 136v written in Bastard Anglicana.
Decoration
Two- to four-line initials in blue, with contrasting infill and marginal flourishing in red.
History
Part 4 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.23, ff. 137-144]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Prologus, 1:1-2, 2:1, 2:2 (extract), 2:16, 3:2, 1:6, 4:26, 3:8, 4:12, 2:26, 2:15, 2:21-25, 2:18, 2:17, 3:1, 4:4, 4:9-10, 2:34-35, 3:3, 4:16-17, 4:19-22, 4:30, 3:5, 1:7, 3:6-7, 2:28, 4:31, 2:19, 2:27, 4:27-29, 2:30, 2:20, 4:7 (with additional text), 4:8, 4:15, 4:24, 3:4, 2:33, 4:23, 4:11, 3:9, 4:25, 4:13, 4:1-2, 4:18, 2:31 (extract), 4:6, 4:5, 1:11, 1:4, 1:9, 1:8, 1:5, 2:32, 2:29, 4:14, 1:3, 4:3.
Full transcription (uncertain). Written vertically in the fore-edge margin by a hand of the later 13th / early 14th century.
Added by a hand of the later 13th / early 14th century.
Physical Description
Collation
This quire, which is of earlier production, has been inserted within Quire 12, between its second and third leaves.
- Quire 138 (ff. 137-144)
Layout
240 × 140-145 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and line (very faint/erased). Two columns. 53-61 lines to the page, written above top line.
Hand(s)
Written in littera textualis by a single hand.
Decoration
Gaps left for two-line initials. A hand - perhaps that responsible for the addition to f. 144v - has added one initial to f. 137r.
History
Provenance
137r: 'Liber iste inuentus fuit in armariolo Abbatis R. de Crok[esle(y)] qui sic intitulatur . liber Magistri Iohannis Belet de Ecclesiasticis officiis'. Richard de Crokesle(y) (d. 1258) was Abbot of Westminster 1246-1258.
Part 5 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.23, ff. 147-242]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Texts ends abruptly at the end of the first column. Perhaps an aborted copy? Folio 147v blank.
Opening rubric added by a 15th-century hand.
Opening rubric added by a 15th-century hand. A symbol resembling the Arabic numeral 4 (in medieval form) and 'ihesus' added to the closing rubric by a different 15th-century hand. The same symbol, and a similar addition, occur at the closing rubric on f. 175v.
A symbol resembling the Arabic numeral 4 (in medieval form) and 'deo gracias T ihesus Maria' added to the closing rubric by a different 15th-century hand. The same symbol, and a similar addition, occur at the closing rubric on f. 168r.
Rubric added by a 15th-century hand. Title taken from the rubric.
Rubric added by a 15th-century hand. Book 2, Part 14, Chapter 8 of De sacramentis.
Book 4, Chapters 11 and 12 (in part). The text also appears in Rabanus Maurus, De universo (Book 5, Chapter 7: PL 111:124-125) and Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book 6, Chapter 16: PL 82:243-245), but in the context a quotation from Hugh of Saint-Victor seems more likely.
Two rubrics: the first added by a 15th-century hand to the top margin; the second by the text scribe, in-column.
Part 3 of the text only. 'Induccio quaedam contra astronomes' (f. 207v), 'Opinio platonis de produccione anime' (f. 211r) and 'Item de retribucione sanctorum' (f. 231v): rubrics added by a 15th-century hand (see Additions). The same hand added the second rubric to the top margin of f. 198r, though 'secundum Parisiensem' appears to have been added later, apparently by Roger Marchall (see Provenance). Folios 238v-242v blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Although the quires in this part are all regular, and consistently of twelve leaves each, variations in their dimensions and quality, as well as in page preparation (see Layout), and how these relate to the scribal hands, suggest different phases of preparation. Quires 14-16 are of regular shape, with only minor variations in height and width; any faults that appear are small and have been kept to the margins (see, for example, ff. 162-163, 167). Thereafter, the leaves are often formed from pieces taken from the edge of the skin, and there are in several places large holes or faults (see, for example, ff. 186, 191, 203, 225, 231) and a closed tear/slit (f. 209) that impinge on the written space. The scribe responsible for copying these later quires began his work part-way through Quire 16, however, on leaves left blank by the previous scribes, and presumably then supplied the remaining quires from a different source and/or more cheaply, preparing both the blank and additional leaves to his own specifications.
- Quires 14-2112 (ff. 147-242)
Leaf signatures in various forms, mostly cropped: 'a 1-6' (Q14), 'iii' and '4' (Q16), '1-6' (Q17-18, 20-21).
Catchwords, in simple open or closed boxes.Layout
240 × 145 mm. Folio 147r: ruled in leadpoint, frame only. 47 lines to the page (right-hand column left blank), written below top line.
230-235 × 140-145 mm.
Folios 148r-178v: ruled in leadpoint, pricking marks
present, written below top line. The rest varies according to scribal stint (see Script):
220-225 × 125-140 mm. Folios 178v-238r: ruled in leadpoint, frame and line. No pricking marks. 49-52 lines to the page, written mostly below top line, but sometimes on or above top line (for examples of writing above top line, see ff. 181r, 183r, 187r, 188r, 194r, 232v-233r, 238r).
Hand(s)
Two hands writing in Anglicana: f. 147r (ll. 1-8 and l. 8 onwards) (both influenced in different ways by Secretary) and ff. 175v (col. 1, l. 12 onwards)-176v (col. 1).
Folios 148r-156v written in Secretary, continued by another hand on f. 157r (ll. 1-27).
Folios 157r (l. 28 onwards)-175v (to l. 11) written in Anglicana formata, the closing rubric in a slightly more formal version). Another hand, using the same script, copied ff. 176v (col. 2)-179r (col. 2, ll. 1-11). A third, less practised hand, copied ff. 178v (col. 2, l. 12 onwards)-238r in the same script.
Decoration
Two- to four-line gaps left for initials.
Additions
'Ihesus Maria', 'Ihesus est amo', 'Ihesus est amor meus', 'O bone Ihesu esto michi Ihesus': annotations by one or more 15th-century hands at the beginning of an aborted copy of Nicholas of Lyra, Contra iudaeum' (f. 147r.
A fifteenth-century hand has added rubrics at the beginning of and part-way through several texts (ff. 148r, 159r, 175v, 176v, 178v, 198r, 207v, 211r, 231v).
History
Part 6 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.23, ff. 243-302]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Title taken from the rubric.
Carmen CCXXII. Folios 301r-302r blank.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 22-2612 (ff. 243-302)
Leaf signatures in Arabic numerals ('1-6').
Catchwords.Layout
220-225 × 135 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and line. Two columns, 55 lines to the page, written below top line.
Hand(s)
Written in Anglicana formata. The same script, in larger module and more formal execution, is used for rubrics.
Decoration
Two- to eleven-line initials in blue, with contrasting infill and marginal flourishing in red.
Paraph marks alternating in red or blue.
Additions
History
Additional Information
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