Cambridge, University Library, MS Mm.5.22
Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Book 4 only; ends imperfectly. MS Mm.5.22 is one of only three manuscripts to contain Book 4 only: the other two are Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 347, ff. 26r-41v (MS 'Bern') and Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, MS lat. 84 (MS 'Gen'); see Lindsay (1901). According to Onions (1889), Book Four of the text in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Lat. 7667 (MS 'P') was copied from MS Mm.5.22, which is closely related to the Geneva manuscript mentioned above and the first hand of London, British Library, Harley MS 2719. (MS 'H').
Physical Description
19th-century foliation:
[i-iii] + 1-24, 27-56 + [iv]
Written in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the recto of each leaf, by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886) , University Librarian 1867-1886.
Folio numbers 25-26 assigned to leaves no longer present in the volume (as per historic foliation practice at Cambridge University Library).
Collation
- Quires 1-38 (ff. 1-24)
- Quire 48-2 (ff. 27-32 (1st and 2nd leaves missing, ff. '25'-'26')
- Quires 5-78 (ff. 33-56)
1-38 48-2 (1st-2nd missing) 5-78
Layout
165 × 150-155 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame and line. Two columns, 25 lines to the page, written above top line.
Hand(s)
Written in Caroline minuscule.
Decoration
Two-line plain initials in brown ink, at the beginning of each section.
A four-line gap across the whole left-hand column, at the beginning of the text, presumably for a decorated initial and / or headpiece.
Additions
Notas, corrections and marginal content markers, written in Caroline minuscule and rustic capitals by hands of the late 9th and 10th centuries.
Author and title written in ink on f. 1r by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) (see Catalogue (1861), p. 333 and Provenance).
Leaf signatures and '+' signs (thoughout), and notes on textual and material collation (ff. [ii] verso-[iii] recto, 27r), added in pencil by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886) . Bradshaw also wrote the classmark in ink on the front pastedown, adding 'Cambridge University Library' to the 'Royal Library' bookplate (see Acquisition).
Reference to W.M. Lindsay (1901), with classmark, added in pencil by C.E. Sayle (1864-1924) , under-librarian (f. [ii] verso).
Binding
18th-century binding of reverse calf covers over pasteboards, with blind-tooled rectangular panel and scrollwork with fleurons at the corners. Rebacked by Douglas Cockerell and Son (i.e. Sydney Morris ('Sandy') Cockerell, 1906-1987 ), June 1960 (note by H.L. Pink , front pastedown). Spine label with title tooled in gold ('NONIUS MARCELL M.S.') and classmark labels preserved on the front pastedown.
History
Bischoff dates the manuscript to the second or third third of the 9th century, Reynolds to the late 9th century.
Provenance and Acquisition
Perhaps from the
Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Sulpice, Bourges
: 'de sancto sulpicio' written on f. 1r by a
16th-century hand. The manuscript was acquired by John Moore (see below) in 1701,
along with another manuscript
certainly from Bourges, now Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.2.32.
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 1005 (front pastedown) in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now MS Oo.7.50(2), compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) after the publication of Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
The manuscript was borrowed in 1702 by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) , for his collation of the text. Bentley's copy of an edition of Nonius Marcellus (Nonii Marcelli nova editio. Additus est libellus Fulgentii de prisco sermone et notae in Nonium et Fulgentium, ed. by Josias Mercer (Paris, 1614) survives as British Library, 684.c.14, and contains a full collation of this manuscript (see Additions and note on f. [iii] recto).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I (1660-1727) : donation bookplate engraved by John Pine (1690-1756) in 1736 on the front pastedown.
Additional Information
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