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St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury

Title:
St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury
Author:
Barker-Benfield, B. C.
Publication Info:
British Library in association with the British Academy
Series:
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues
Location:
London
Notes:
  • CCCC MS 19 ff. 1-333 are from Christ Church Canterbury, dating to 1120s, and contain Ivo of Chartres, Decretum, p. 1539
  • CCCC MS 13 CCCC MS 13 identified as entry BA1.902 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; the second part of a four-volume set of Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum historiale, the first and third parts surviving as Cambridge, St John’s College, MS B. 21 (43) and CCCC MS 14; leaf-signatures suggest a different binding history from the other surviving parts; one of the ’Abbot Thomas’ volumes, pp. 935-7, 1864, 1911
  • CCCC MS 14 CCCC MS 14 identified as entry BA1.903 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; the third part of a four-volume set of Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum historiale, the first and second parts surviving as Cambridge, St John’s College, MS B.21 (43) and CCCC MS 13; pointing hands added by Clement of Canterbury; one of the ’Abbot Thomas’ volumes, pp. 935-7, 1119, 1864, 1868, 1876, 1911
  • CCCC MS 20 CCCC MS 20 identified as item BA1.224=225A in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; given to St Augustine’s by Juliana of Leybourne, countess of Huntingdon, the only woman donor recorded in this catalogue; chapter number added perhaps by Clement of Canterbury; a duplicate entry for the same manuscript has been erased by ’Hand D’, pp. xiv, 39, 41, 454-7, 691
  • CCCC MS 38 CCCC MS 38 identified as item BA1.1723 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; this composite decretal manuscript is given a very full entry; the chain staple mark may not belong to St Augustine’s; from the book collection of Dr John Mankael, acquired by St Augustine’s after his death, pp. lxxxv n. 78, xcv n. 91, 8, 1562, 1566, 1568-71, 1720, 1770, 1774-5, 1845
  • CCCC MS 44 Pontifical for an archbishop of Canterbury, dating to s. xi med.; often attributed to St Augustine’s Canterbury on grounds of script; if made at St Augustine’s then presumably made to order for export (to Christ Church), pp. lviii-lix, 1811
  • CCCC MS 46 CCCC MS 46 is a copy from Christ Church Canterbury of John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon dating to twelfth century, p. 1679
  • CCCC MS 49 CCCC MS 49 identified as item BA1.9 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; once borrowed by J. Dygon; given by Geoffrey of Langley, pp. 374-5
  • CCCC MS 50 CCCC MS 50 identified as item BA1.1516 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; not later than 1272; flyleaves discussed; MS has blank shelfmark slots; the signature Bachon with a four-petalled flower is also found in CCCC MS 312; perhaps linked to BA1.1305 through the name ’Iambertus’, and to BA1.1661 with the name ’Willelmus prestone’, pp. xcix, 105, 339, 972, 1313, 1429-31, 1550, 1702, 1718, 1920
  • CCCC MS 57 CCCC MS 57 Has close textual links to some St Augustine’s manuscripts of Benedictine texts, p. 1705
  • CCCC MS 63 Part I of CCCC MS 63, dating to s. xiv in., includes Ralph of London’s Electuarium and was given to Christ Church Canterbury by Thomas Stoyl, monk 1299-1333; an anonymous and pseudonymous collection of texts in CCCC MS 63, ff. 31-43, may be related to texts by Thomas of Woburn known to Bale and also found in an entry for Devotionalia in the St Augustine’s manuscript catalogue (BA1.798), pp. 841, 842-3, 1507
  • CCCC MS 81 Homer, glossed, and Posthomerica of Quintus of Smyrna, dating to s. xv med. - xv 2; included on grounds of ex libris in catalogue of manuscripts surviving from St Augustine’s Abbey which are not mentioned in surviving St Augustine’s library catalogues; provenance is given only by a note claiming the manuscript was rescued thence by a baker, pp. 81, 1780-1
  • CCCC MS 94 CCCC MS 94 contains Collectio decem partium, dating to s. xii 2/4; attributed to St Augustine’s Canterbury in Ker’s MLGB solely on the grounds of script; hand found in other St Augustine’s manuscripts including Bodleian MS Laud. Misc. 300 and fragments in a private Oxford collection, pp. 92 n. 67, 504, 1809, 1819
  • CCCC MS 111 CCCC MS 111 That part of Saewulf’s itinerary dealing with Jerusalem is also found in London, Lambeth Palace, 144, p. 1461
  • CCCC MS 129  CCCC MS 129 identified as item BA1.910a-c in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; once owned by Twyne, pp. 943-5, 990, 1912
  • CCCC MS 130 CCCC MS 130 is a manuscript dating to s. xii in. of Pseudo-Isidoream decretals (Collectio Lanfranci) now rejected from the St Augustine’s canon, pp. 1728, 1822
  • CCCC MS 135 CCCC MS 135 contains a rare Anselm text (’Tractatus beati Anselmi de uirtute corporis Christi’ on ff. 166r-v, added at Bury s. xiii med. to a collection of Anselm’s letters dating to s. xii in. made at Christ Church for Abbot Anselm of Bury, p. 633
  • CCCC MS 144 ’The Corpus Glossaries’, dating to s. ix 1; has a St Augustine’s ex libris and is probably to be identified with the entry BA1.IDX509, ’Elucidacio quarundam parcium’, in the index to the main St Augustine’s catalogue; but is omitted from the body of that catalogue; probably not to be identified with entry BA1.1350 in the main catalogue; the Priscian endleaves were not necessarily bound with the rest of the manuscript until s. xvi 2 or s. xvii, pp. xcvi and nn. 94-5, 5 n. b, 50, 52, 95, 1334, 1335, 1759, 1770-1, 1781, 1814
  • CCCC MS 153 CCCC MS 153 included in a list of manuscripts rejected for St Augustine’s Canterbury provenance; Welsh parts dating to s. ix ex. - x in., English to s. x, pp. 1822-3
  • CCCC MS 154 CCCC MS 154, English, dating to s. xiv 1/4, identified as item BA1.457 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; very full catalogue entry; given by John of London (monk, floruit circa 1290-1330), pp. 8, 14, 172, 179, 617-23, 1754, 1758, 1843
  • CCCC MS 173 London, Lambeth Palace, 1213, a legal collection made by or for Prior William de Byholte of St Augustine’s Canterbury (floruit 1292-1336), contains extracts from the Parker Chronicle, showing contacts between the two Canterbury houses’ libraries, pp. lxxviii, 1799
  • CCCC MS 189 CCCC MS 189 Folios 1-194 printed as BA3 (’B’), pp. 1622-40 W. Thorne, Chronicle, etc., dating to s. xiv ex. - xv in.; not in the main catalogue of St Augustine’s Canterbury; probably seen by Leland at St Augustine’s (BA8.*1, BA8.*10); owned by a former St Augustine’s monk, Robert Breacher, who lent it to Twyne and then gave it to Parker; texts identified; ff. 195-202 may be IDX1570, documents of Christ Church, Canterbury, pp. 1694-5, 1697, 1726-7, 1779, 1781-2
  • CCCC MS 192 CCCC MS 192 contains tenth-century additions perhaps attributable to St Augustine’s Canterbury on grounds of script; related to Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 11. 2 (241), pp. 1811, 1813
  • CCCC MS 206 CCCC MS 206 Martianus Capella, Bk. IV, and works of Alcuin, Boethius, etc., dating to s. x 1; English scribes writing modified versions of continental Caroline; rejected for St Augustine’s provenance, p. 1823
  • CCCC MS 221 CCCC MS 221 ff. 1-24, dating to s. ix ex or s. x 1, perhaps attributable to St Augustine’s Canterbury on grounds of script; Bishop identified the hand with one in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, 144/194, pp. 1396-7, 1811
  • CCCC MS 267 CCCC MS 267 identified as item BA1.884 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; contains work by a known St Augustine’s scribe, pp. 530, 918-19, 1797, 1910-11
  • CCCC MS 270 ’Missale’, dating to s. xi ex; associated with St Augustine’s, Canterbury for liturgical reasons; perhaps encompassed among the ’Missalia imperfecta’ (IDX935) in the St Augustine’s catalogue’s missing liturgica section; Bishop identified the scribe in a number of St Augustine’s manuscripts; the flyleaves, once pastedowns (Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica, s. xi 2), may be waste pages rather than from a dismembered book, pp. 530, 607, 1445, 1655 n. 43, 1733, 1736-7, 1782
  • CCCC MS 271 CCCC MS 271 identified as item BA1.1632 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; compares the catalogue entry with the surviving manuscript; annotated by Simon Maidstone; part owned by ’Abbot Thomas’, pp. 486, 997, 1538, 1541, 1542-3, 1612-13, 1648 n. 27, 1790, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1867
  • CCCC MS 274 CCCC MS 274 identified as item BA1.383 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; dating to s. xii in.; compares the catalogue entry with the surviving manuscript; ’standard Virginalia collection’, pp. lix n. 23, 567-8, 603, 1468, 1821, 1831, 1862
  • CCCC MS 276 CCCC MS 276 identified as item BA1.892 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; made of two parts, dating to s. xi ex. and s. xii in., together since the twelfth century; Mont-St-Michel influence; scribe found in other MSS, probably in the retinue of Abbot Scotland, pp. lx, 448, 527, 530, 924-5, 926, 943, 946, 1795
  • CCCC MS 280 CCCC MS 280 rejected for St Augustine’s, Canterbury provenance; previously identified with item BA1.924 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue, pp. 956, 1823
  • CCCC MS 284 Anselm, Orationes, and liturgical texts, etc., dating to s. xiv ex.; perhaps from St Augustine’s, Canterbury on liturgical grounds (a St Augustine’s litany added s. xv), but perhaps just owned by someone with St Augustine’s connections, pp. 634, 828, 832, 833, 1743, 1782
  • CCCC MS 286 CCCC MS 286 Gospels, dating to s. viii in.; perhaps once included in the now-lost liturgica section of the St Augustine’s Canterbury catalogue; evidence for St Augustine’s Canterbury association reviewed; perhaps mentioned by Thomas Elmham (BA5.6), pp. 1663-4, 1696, 1733-4; 1782, 1792 CCCC MS 286 Vulgate, with some Old Latin readings; perhaps once in the St Augustine’s catalogue’s missing liturgica section; perhaps identifiable in Thorne’s list of the donations of Gregory (BA3.2); perhaps identifiable in Elmham’s chronicle (BA5.6); scribe of an addition may be found in other St Augustine’s manuscripts; perhaps mentioned by Leland, pp. 442, 530, 1631, 1655, 1660, 1663-4, 1695-6, 1730-1, 1732-3, 1735, 1782      
  • CCCC MS 288 CCCC MS 288, dating to s. xiii, is listed as ’Prophetia Hildegardi’ and ’Asseneth’ in Prior Eastry’s catalogue of Christ Church, Canterbury; it had been given to Christ Church by Nicholas of Sandwich, Prior 1244-58; textual identifications discussed; perhaps related to a St Augustine’s manuscript; contains common extracts from Gregory of Tours introducing the Euangelium Nicodemi, pp. 913, 999, 1477
  • CCCC MS 290 CCCC MS 290, St Albans s. xii 1, is almost certainly textually descended from BL Royal 13. A. XXIII (from St Augustine’s, dating to s. xi 2, after 1058), p. 946
  • CCCC MS 291 CCCC MS 291 identified as item BA1.444 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; dating to s. xi ex. - xii in.; the scribe’s work perhaps identifiable in other St Augustine’s work, pp. 447, 516, 606-7
  • CCCC MS 301 Collectanea of Stephen of Hackington, dating to s. xiv 1; has St Augustine’s Canterbury ex libris; a personal collection; owner discussed; contains a list of the voters at the election of Abbot Petham in June 1375 CCCC MS 301 (ff. 106v-107r), pp. 686-7, 1782
  • CCCC MS 312 CCCC MS 312 identified as item BA1.939 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; the signature Bachon with a four-petalled flower is also found in CCCC MS 50, pp. lxi n. 29, 972, 1287, 1430, 1445, 1446, 1687, 1749
  • CCCC MS 314 CCCC MS 314 identified as item BA1.419 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; English?, dating to s. xiii 2; catalogue entry is compared with surviving manuscript; has annotations by Clement Canterbury; given by ’Prior Thomas’; perhaps related to an earlier Christ Church manuscript, pp. 587-9, 645, 1834, 1870-1
  • CCCC MS 320 CCCC MS 320 part II, Poenitentiale Theodori etc, dating to s. x 2, attributed to St Augustine’s Canterbury on grounds of script; does not seem to be included in the Poenitentialia section of the St Augustine’s catalogue; contains part of the Libellus responsionum, pp. 754, 1480, 1811-12
  • CCCC MS 332 CCCC MS 332 pp. 242-4 (Rochester, perhaps dating to before 1124) contain a tract attributed to Anselm which is part of Cassiodorus’ Historia tripartita, I.11, ’De diuersis monachis et eorum institutione’, p. 993
  • CCCC MS 352 CCCC MS 352 identified as item BA1.1008 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue, pp. 1017-18
  • CCCC MS 356 CCCC MS 356 part III, glossary dating to s. x ex., may be from St Augustine’s Canterbury on script grounds; Bishop identified a hand with one found in BL Cotton Domitian A. I, pp. 595, 1812
  • CCCC MS 364 CCCC MS 364 identified as item BA1.1202 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; English?, dating to s. xiii 1; classmark has been altered from D. 12 G. 3 to D.14 G.3 suggesting a shelf move; the catalogue entry is compared with the manuscript, pp. 62, 1226-7
  • CCCC MS 371 Some of the flyleaf poems of CCCC MS 371 are also found in BL Cotton Vespasian A. XVIII from St Augustine’s Canterbury, p. 956
  • CCCC MS 379 CCCC MS 379 ff. 10r-13v are Robert Talbot’s transcript of BL Cotton Claudius B. IV, p. 406
  • CCCC MS 382 CCCC MS 382 identified as item BA1.621 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; English, dating to s. xiv 2, pp. 737-8
  • CCCC MS 384 CCCC MS 384, Brut dating to s. xvi, rejected for St Augustine’s Canterbury provenance, p. 1823
  • CCCC MS 389 CCCC MS 389 Perhaps identifiable as the ’Opusculum Felix’ which Leland saw at St Augustine’s, Canterbury (BA7.18); dating to s. x 2; author portrait added s. xi 2/4 - xi 3/4; probably included in the main St Augustine’s catalogue’s missing _liturgica_ section, pp. 606, 1681-2, 1683, 1747, 1748, 1779, 1782-3, 1816
  • CCCC MS 392 CCCC MS 392 (dating to s. xv) contains a text ’qui uocatur Manuale’ on ff. 138r-170v, here attributed to Augustine of Hippo, which has a complex history of attributions, p. 819
  • CCCC MS 411 CCCC MS 411 rejected for identification as included among IDX 1001 ’Psalteria non glosata’, from the missing liturgica section of the St Augustine’s Canterbury catalogue, because more probably from Christ Church; contains a Gallicanum Psalter, dating to s. x 2, with additions s. xii in. made at Christ Church, pp. 1742, 1823
  • CCCC MS 430 CCCC MS 430 f. 54 is a tenth-century replacement leaf in a theological miscellany dating to s. ix ex - x in.; probably written at St Augustine’s on grounds of script, p. 1812
  • CCCC MS 441 CCCC MS 441, dating to s. xiii and with Christ Church provenance, contains a work by Richard of Thetford, pp. 13-30; also contains a work on the instruction of novices, pp. 359-92; has common extracts from Gregory of Tours introducing the Euangelium Nicodemi, pp. 866, 1472, 1477
  • CCCC MS 446 CCCC MS 446 (English, dating to s. xv) contains a Quadrilogus text mistakenly attributed to Langton, but actually Elias of Evesham OSB, Quadrilogus de uita S. Thomae Cantuariensis, ’second’ (earlier) version, p. 944
  • CCCC MS 466 CCCC MS 466 identified as item BA1.1245 in the main St Augustine’s catalogue; dating to s. xii; compares the catalogue entry with the manuscript; identifies flyleaf texts; discusses inscription mentioning Laurence Lenham, who is also recorded as a borrower, pp. 73, 1262-4
  • CCCC MS 471 CCCC MS 471 [sic] has a text by Odo of Cheriton called ’Parabolae’, starting Aperiam; Barker-Benfield is wrong here; this is probably a typographical error for CCCC MS 441, although CCCC MS 481 also contains the text, p. 903
  • CCCC MS 481 CCCC MS 481, dating to s. xiii, has two twelve-line poems De duodecim abusionibus seculi and De duodecim abusionibus claustri, pp. 419-20, p. 900
  • CCCC MSS 70 and 258 Andrew Horn’s annotations ’ex libro S. Augustini’ in CCCC MSS 70 and 258 are probably taken from BL Cotton Titus A. XXVII, p. 927
  • CCCC MSS 441, 471 and 481 CCCC MS 471has a text by Odo of Cheriton called ’Parabolae’, starting Aperiam; Barker-Benfield is wrong here; this is probably a typographical error for CCCC MS 441, although CCCC MS 481 also contains the text, p. 903
Volume:
13
Reference Type:
Book
Manuscript:
bh709gt4292

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