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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library

Title:

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library

Author:

Thomson, R. M.

Location:

Cambridge

Notes:

• CCCC MS 9 Notes the survival of staple marks at the foot of the front board of CCCC MS 9 which indicate that the book was chained while in the Worcester Cathedral Library, p. xxxv
• CCCC MS 12 & CCCC MS 367 Notes that CCCC 367 contains a list of eleven Old English books thought to have been at Worcester and that the copy of the Old English Pastoral Rule in CCCC MS 12 may be one of the copies of this work mentioned in that list. Also notes the letter at f. 52 from Abbot Herbert and Prior Eadwig of Westminster to Prior Warin and Uhtred the precentor of Worcester, pp. xxi, xxiii Notes the copy of the Old English Pastoral Care in CCCC MS 12 which may be one of the copies of this work mentioned in CCCC 367 list of eleven Old English books. Also notes the presence of glosses in a Worcester hand in CCCC MS 12, pp. xxii, xxiv
• CCCC MS 24 Identifies John Preston, a Worcester monk, as the donor of CCCC MS 24 (donated to the monastic community at Worcester Cathedral in 1348), pp. xxvi, 13
• CCCC MS 146 Notes that CCCC MS 146 was made in Winchester and held by the Worcester Cathedral Library before coming to Corpus Christi College via Parker, p. xxi
• CCCC MS 163 Notes Gullick’s theory that CCCC MS 163 was made at Worcester; see Gullick, ’The origin and date of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 163’ Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Soc. 11 (1998) pp. 89-91, p. xvii
• CCCC MS 178 Notes the presence of glosses in a Worcester hand in CCCC MS 178, p. xxiv n. 58
• CCCC MS 198 Notes the presence of glosses in a Worcester hand in CCCC MS 198, p. xxiv n. 58
• CCCC MS 217 Notes the Worcester provenance of CCCC MS 217, p. xxiv
• CCCC MS 244 Notes tracts similar to Obligationes Oxonienses from Worcester Cathedral Library MS F. 118, ff. 8v-10r in CCCC MS 244, ff 13r-16v. Notes another copy of the Richard Lavenham tract from MS F. 118 in CCCC MS 244, ff. 20v-22v. Notes Tractus aureus de probationibus propositionum in F. 118 is also in CCCC MS 244, ff. 29r-32r, pp. 79-81
• CCCC MS 265 Notes the survival of staple marks at the foot of the front board of CCCC MS 265 which indicate that the book was chained while in Worcester Cathedral Library, pp. xxii, xxxv, xl
• CCCC MS 279 Notes CCCC MS 279’s Worcester provenance, p. xvii
• CCCC MS 322 Notes CCCC MS 322’s Worcester provenance, p. xvii
• CCCC MS 378 Notes Tractus Aureus de Probationibus Propositionum in Worcester Cathedral Library F. 118 is also in CCCC MS 378, ff. 34v-45v, p. 81
• CCCC MS 526 Notes that the only surviving English copies of John of Ruysbroec’s De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum are CCCC MS 526 and Worcester Cathedral Library F. 80, p. 51

Reference Type:

Book

Manuscript:

bk550db6454