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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 089: Stephen Langton, Commentaries on Selected Books of the Old Testament

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 089: Stephen Langton, Commentaries on Selected Books of the Old Testament

Description

Alternative title
Stephanus Langton Super Prophetas etc.
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 235 + 3
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 48 and 46 lines
Height (mm)
373
Width (mm)
280
Collation
1 flyleaf stuck to cover, 1(8)-3(8) | 4(8)-9(8) 10(10) | 11(8) 12(12) | 13(8)-17(8) (wants 5-8) | 18(8)-20(8) 21(6) | 22(8)-28(8) 29(12) (wants 12), 2 flyleaves: 2 stuck to cover.
Writing
in more than one clear hand
Foliation
ff. 1-235 + i. Partially imaged: front cover exterior and interior + ff. 1r-9v + ff. 234r, 235r + f. ir (back flyleaf) + back cover exterior and interior
Provenance
On the first cover is title in large letters. At top in blue and red: Liber Sancte Marie de Cogeshale.
Additions
Then: In hoc uolumine continentur ista secundum ordinem istius. Textus Jeremie cum Trenis Et post Expositio eorum. Textus Ezechielis Et post Expositio eius. Textus Ezdre et Neemie. Et Textus duorum librorum Machabeorum. Post Expositio eorum secundum eundem ordinem.
At top of f. 1r in red: Notandum quod litera que in presenti textu rubricatur in subsequenti opere explanatur, que autem non rubricatur non explanatur.
The next flyleaf (ir) is from a MS. of cent. xii late, in double columns, from an unfinished copy of the Recognitions: headed de S. petro apostolo, beginning: tate euigilaueris. Itaque si te multi ex fratribus (Ep. Clementis ยง xvi Cotelier). ending: Quem ipse precepit affigi. id est clementis itinerarium predicationis petri. Explicit epistola beati clementis pape ad iacobum de sancto petro apostolo. Verso blank.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
This is a thirteenth-century manuscript containing commentaries by Stephen Langton (c. 1150-1228) on Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Ezra, Nehemia, and I and II Maccabees. It belongs to the category of manuscripts of Langton's works described by Lacombe and Smalley as 'collections without order'. As with CCCC MS 31, this collection of Langton's commentaries belonged to the Savigniac and Cistercian abbey of St Mary's, Coggeshall. It is one of the few books in the Parker Library to retain its original binding, a fine and well-preserved example. As a result of the fragility of this binding it has only been possible to image the exterior and interior of the covers and ff. 1r-9v, 234r, 235r and f. ir (back flyleaf).
Contents
Stephen Langton's commentaries on Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Ezra, Nehemiah and I and II Maccabees

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nh298tt5260/MS_89.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bj533mg1425/89.pdf
Contains
  • Stephen Langton's commentaries on Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Ezra, Nehemiah and I and II Maccabees. 1r-235v
    Author
    Stephen Langton
    Rubric
    (1r) Incipit prologus sancti Ieronimi presbiteri in iheremiam prophetam
    Incipit
    (1r) Ieremias propheta cui hic prologus
    Note
    (1r) Text of Jeremiah with curious gaudy initial in red, blue and green
    The passages subsequently commented upon are underlined in red
    (22v) Treni
    text not rubricated
    (25r) Stephen Langton's comment on the above in another hand
    Incipit
    (25r) Prophetarum quidam prophetauerunt longe ante captiuitatem
    Explicit
    (56v) et superbia uite
    Rubric
    (56v) Explicit moralis expositio super ieremiam secundum cantuariensem archiepiscopum Stephanum
    (56v) Incipit moralis expositio eiusdem super trenos ieremie
    Incipit
    (57r) Ieremias destruccionem ierusalem
    Explicit
    (82r) iacet prostratus
    Rubric
    (82r) Expliciunt notule archiepiscopi super trenos ieremie
    Note
    (82r) Explanation of Hebrew alphabet
    Incipit
    (82r) Aleph interpretatur doctrina
    Note
    (82v) blank
    (83r) Prologue to Ezekiel
    Incipit
    (83r) Ezechiel propheta cum ioachim
    Note
    (83r) Text of Ezekiel. Two very gaudy initials. Text rubricated as before
    Ends
    Rubric
    (102v) habet versus tria milia et tres centos
    Note
    (103r) Exposition
    Incipit
    (103r) Facies michi duos cherubim
    Explicit
    (138v) Ecce ego uobiscum sum etc.
    Rubric
    (138v) Explicit moralitas
    Note
    (139r) Prologue to Ezra
    a.
    Incipit
    (139r) Utrum difficilius
    Note
    b.
    Incipit
    (139r) Ezras et neemias adiutor
    Note
    (139r) Text of Ezra and Nehemiah
    Prologue to Maccabees
    (147v) Machabeorum libri duo
    (147v) Text
    (167v) Ends
    168r-168v blank
    Rubric
    (169r) Incipit moralis expositio Magistri Stephani de Langetun' in librum Esdre
    (169r) Incipit prefacio magistralis
    Incipit
    (169r) Omnis scriba doctus in regno
    Explicit
    (192v) conferendo graciam
    Rubric
    (193r) Incipit prologus magistralis in primum librum Machabeorum
    Incipit
    (193r) Residuum eruce comedit locusta
    Note
    (235v) Commentary on 2 Maccabees ends
    Explicit
    (235v) auidius sumuntur
    Rubric
    (235v) Explicit liber Machabeorum secundus
TJames
145
Stanley
M. 8
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 089

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