Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 087: Ralph of Flaix OSB, Commentary on Leviticus

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 087: Ralph of Flaix OSB, Commentary on Leviticus

Alternate Title:

Radulfus Flaviacensis in Leviticum

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 136

Dimensions:

370 Height (mm) and 280 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1200 - 1225]

Table of contents:

Commentary on Leviticus

Description:

CCCC MS 87 is an early thirteenth-century copy of the commentary on Leviticus by Ralph of Flaix OSB (d. 1157), in a very fine hand. M. R. James suggested that the provenance of the manuscript might be Worcester, although this was rejected by Ker. James also identified this manuscript as being the copy of Ralph of Flaix's commentary mentioned in an early fourteenth-century catalogue from Christ Church, Canterbury, although this identification is doubtful. The unusual binding of this manuscript, being of velvet with clasps and bosses, is characteristic of the 'Old Royal' library of Henry VIII. 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. 1-17r and f. 136r.