Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 029: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica

Description

Alternative title
Petri Comestoris Historia Scholastica
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 158 + 11
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1225]
Language
Latin
Material
paper
Layout
double columns of 49 lines
Height (mm)
348
Width (mm)
250
Collation
3 flyleaves, a(2?) b(6), 1(8)-20(8) (wants 7-8). One page at each end covered with paper.
Writing
in two main hands, both very good
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-xi + 1-157 + xii + c-d
Additions
Three flyleaves at the beginning are from a xiiith cent. MS. of decretals in small hand. Then a blank leaf (i).
f. iir a has xvith cent. note and title.
ff. iiir-viiir have the compendium of sacred history up to the time of Christ which is often found written on rolls and attributed to Petrus Pictavensis: Considerans hystorie sacre prolixitatem with genealogical tables.
Decoration
On iiv a drawing of the seven-branched candlestick with allegorical explanation, and diagram of 'transitus filiorum israel per mare rubrum'.
On viiiv a drawing of a seraph, with the allegorical significance of the six wings and feathers.
There are some very handsome decorative initials containing grotesque figures, e.g. Genesis f. 1v; Exodus (a centaur) f. 19r; Numbers (retaining its cloth guard) f. 34v; Joshua, curious figure f. 44r.
2 fo.
considerans
uocat
Material
Vellum

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 29 is an early thirteenth-century manuscript containing Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Genealogia historiarum(Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi) (also in CCCC MSS 83 and 437), and Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187), Historia scholastica. The manuscript contains a number of illustrations, including a seven-branched candlestick and a seraph, with accompanying allegorical interpretations. It also features decorative initials containing grotesques.
Contents
Genealogia historiarum -- Historia scholastica

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiii early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nz197nv4562/MS_29.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ky556kh2774/29.pdf
Contains
  • Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum. vir-xir
    Author
    Peter of Poitiers
  • Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. 1r-xiiv
    Author
    Petrus Comestor
    Rubric
    (1r) Petri ComestorisHistoria Scholastica
    (1r) Incipit prologus epistolaris
    Incipit
    (1r) Reuerendo patri et domino suo Willelmo
    Explicit
    (1r) per omnia benedictus deus. Amen
    Note
    Capitula
    Rubric
    (1r) Incipit prefatio
    Incipit
    (1v) Imperatorie maiestatis
    Note
    (P. L. CXCVIII 1053)
    Explicit
    (1v) princeps est et principium
    Rubric
    (1v) Incipit hystoria scolastica de creatione
    Incipit
    (1v) In principio erat uerbum
    Note
    (66r) Hand changes
    Explicit
    (157v) in catacumbis
    Note
    (157v) Epitaph of P. Comestor in a later hand
    (xiir) blank
    (xiiv) Verso covered with paper
TJames
13
Stanley
B. 1
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 029

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