Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 485: Bible

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 485: Bible

Alternate Title:

Biblia

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 3 + 379

Dimensions:

260 Height (mm) and 175 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1200 - 1299]

Provenance:

At the bottom of the page (f. ir), in a different hand from the booklist described below: Hunc librum concessit mihi et deliberauit ven. in Xo pater et dominus Reg. Abbas monasterii S. petri Glouc. quousque Johannes Orchard monachus dicti monasterii mihi solverit xxvjs viijd nomine Johannis Twenyng monachi, etc. Et predicto ven. patri Reg. tradidi librum scilicet Bibliam quam implegiauit michi dictus J. Twenyng. The Abbot in question is Reginald de Haunne, who presided from 1263 to 1284. There is little room for doubt that the book is from Gloucester. The flyleaves supply some interesting records. In the cover is written (xiii): Hunc librum fecit scribi Robertus de Aldeswyrth (Aldsworth is near Gloucester). Sum de communi. nolo fieri specialis Tradar sic uni quod cunctis sim generalis. qui me furatus fuerit aut alienauerit. sit ille maledictus. Plectatur pena tali quod sit anathema. Then in a xvith cent. hand, with a thick line drawn through it: Sum Richardi Mirre emptus de Willelmo Davis Clerico.

Table of contents:

Bible

Description:

CCCC MS 485 is an English Latin Bible of the middle years of the thirteenth century which includes a list of books once owned by Robert of Aldsworth (fl. 1275), a monk of Gloucester. The Bible was at Gloucester by the third quarter of the thirteenth century as evidenced by an inscription mentioning Reginald de Haunne, abbot 1263-84. The book is decorated with ornamental and figure initials in a simple style, not using gold grounds.