Description
Alternative title
Egesippus
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 135 + 3
Date created
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
38 lines to a page
Height (mm)
310
Width (mm)
175
Collation
a (three) i(8)-xvii(8) (wants 8).
Writing
in various good hands, rather rough and fluctuating
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-135 + c-d
Provenance
At top of f. 1 (xiii) erased Lib. sci Andr' de ... Jo le(?) The obvious churches of St Andrew are Rochester, Hexham, Wells.
Additions
The three flyleaves (ff. ir-iiiv) are from a very beautifully written Italian copy of the Digest of cent. xii, with interesting initials, birds, dragons, etc. outlined in red, washed with green and yellow: double columns of 49-50 lines. More leaves from the same book are at Pembroke College, taken from the binding of a book which was given to Bury Abbey by R. Grosseteste in exchange for another (no. 7. See my catalogue p. xl: cf. also MS. 285 at Gonville and Caius College). The marginal and interlinear notes are of exquisite delicacy.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 149 is a manuscript of the Historia Iosephi de bello iudaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae, pseudonymously attributed to the second-century historian, Hegesippus, as was common in the Middle Ages. On the grounds of its script it can be dated to the first half of the twelfth century. A partially erased ex libris inscription shows that it was at a foundation dedicated to St Andrew, and the Augustinian priory of Hexham has been suggested. The manuscript has flyleaves from a mid-twelfth-century Italian legal manuscript. According to James, fragments from the same manuscript survive in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 285, and in Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 7, a manuscript which Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253) gave to Bury St Edmunds in exchange for another.
- Contents
- Historia Iosephi de bello iudaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae
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