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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003: The Dover Bible, Volume I

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003: The Dover Bible, Volume I

Description

Alternative title
Bibliorum Pars I
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 273
Date created
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 45 lines
Height (mm)
547
Width (mm)
372
Collation
I(4?) (wanting 1, 4) II(8)-XXXV(8) (wants 8). Old foliation and numeration of quires incorrect.
Writing
in a fine hand much resembling that of MS 2
Foliation
ff. i + 1-273
Provenance
From St Martin's Priory, Dover. On the lower margin of f. 4r is the press-mark of that house: : : I : Prima pars Biblie ... es inter omnia animancia ... 273. It is entered in the old catalogue of 1389. See my Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover, pp. 413, 522

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MSS 3-4 are a two-volume Bible made for Dover Priory, a dependency of Christ Church cathedral priory, Canterbury. Like the Bury Bible, CCCC MS 2, it is of very large size and typical of twelfth-century luxury monastic Bibles. This first volume contains the Old Testament from Genesis to the Minor Prophets. There is no firm evidence for dating, although a date c. 1150 is generally accepted. The script is close to the Eadwine Psalter (Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.17.1) and dated charters produced at Canterbury in the 1150s. It seems fairly certain that the mother house provided its dependency, Dover Priory, with the book, although at what date it came to Dover is not known. It appears first in the 1389 catalogue of their books. There are historiated or decorated initials at the beginning of the biblical books, illuminated by several artists working in different styles. The artists of this first volume work in a Byzantinising style, but different from that of Master Hugo in the Bury Bible, CCCC MS 2. Although it is also a version of the 'damp-fold' style, the folds are patterned in a way closer to that of Byzantine artists. This artist of the Dover Bible may have travelled to Sicily and was influenced by the style of mosaics such as those of the Cappella Palatina, Palermo.
Contents
The Dover Bible, Volume I

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ts373xq7027/MS_3.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wc947vn1610/3.pdf
Contains
  • The Dover Bible, Volume I. 1r-273v
    Note
    f. 1 gone
    Incipit
    (1r) Incipit ordo librorum catholicorum qui in ecclesia romana ponuntur in anni circulo ad legendum
    Explicit
    (1r) In octauas theophanie eosdem psalmos easdemque lectiones quas in theophania preter has festiuitates quas superius diximus
    Rubric
    (1r) Incipit prologus Jeronimi presbiteri in Genesim
    Incipit
    (1r) Desiderii mei
    Note
    (2r) Capitula (84)
    f. 4 (frontispiece to Genesis with word IN) gone
    (3r) Genesis, beginning: principio: four lines in large coloured capitals
    Rubric
    (23r) Explicit liber Bresith id est Genesis. Incipiunt capitula libri Hellesmoth idest Exodus
    Note
    (23r) Capitula (149)
    (24r) Initial to Exodus of fine conventional foliage on blue ground. It contains a bust of Jacob in medallion in the cross-bar of the H and busts of the twelve patriarchs in four groups of three below
    (41r) Capitula to Leviticus (89)
    (41v) Initial to Leviticus: decorative, contains lion and dragon
    (53v) Capitula to Numbers (74)
    (54v) Initial to Num. (L.) containing six busts in medallions, the topmost one an angel, the others men
    (72r) Capitula to Deuteronomy (154)
    (73v) Initial to Deuteronomy (H). Above, on blue ground, Moses nimbed, pointing to Mons Horeb on L. and holding scroll which hangs down into the lower half of the letter, inscribed, in wonderfully fine capitals: sufficit vobis quod in hoc monte mansistis. Below, two groups of men (five in each) on yellow ground, receiving the scroll
    Rubric
    (89r) Explicit ad dabarim quod grece dicitur deuteronomium VIDC (= 1600)
    Note
    (89r) Praefatio in Josue
    Incipit
    (89r) Tandem finito
    Note
    (89v) Capitula (33)
    (89v) Decorative initial to text
    (100v) Capitula to Judges (18)
    (100v) Initial. IOSVE ET CALEPH, two figures on brown ground robed, each holding sword and shield, one shield (L.) is or seven bends sinister vert, the other checky of az. and arg. a chief or fretty sable
    Rubric
    (112r) Explicit liber soptim id est iudicum V II DCCL
    Note
    (112r) Decorative initial to Ruth, with dragon and grotesque head: bust of Ruth in medallion
    (113v) Prologue to Kings
    Incipit
    (113v) Uiginti ed (!) duas
    Note
    (114v) Capitula of 1, 2 Reg. (96)
    (114v) Initial. Blue panel on green. Goliath in mail shirt, peaked helmet, kite-shaped shield, long spear. David small on L. slings at him. At the tail of the letter Goliath fallen, with broken spear, helmet fallen off showing nose-piece. David stands on him and beheads him
    (131r) 2 Reg. Initial. David throned rends his clothes, a courtier at each side weeps. The Amalekite kneels on L. holding up crown and ring. At the tail of the letter, a man beheads the Amalekite
    (143v) Capitula of 3, 4 Reg. (86)
    (144v) 3 Reg. Decorative initial
    (159v) 4 Reg. Initial. Blue ground, coloured clouds above. Christ nimbed in car drawn by two dappled horses surrounded by red flames (He holds the reins) grasps the wrist of Elijah on L. who is in a single brown garment. Below his feet the mantle. At bottom Elisha looks up and holds scroll (damaged) Pater mi Pater mi currus Israel et auriga eius
    (173v) Prologue to Isaiah
    Incipit
    (173v) Nemo cum prophetas
    Note
    (173v) Initial. Isaiah (on blue and green ground) with scroll ve genti peccatrici. He holds his hand to his face
    (195r) Prologue to Jeremiah
    Incipit
    (195r) Ieremias propheta cui hic
    Note
    (195r) Initial. Christ (Α̂ and ω̂ on the background) holds scroll, Prophetam in gentibus dedi te. Outside the letter, on brown ground, Jeremiah (beardless). Above him the words A, A, A, domine deus
    Rubric
    (220r) Lamentatio ieremie prophete
    Incipit
    (220r) Et factum est
    Rubric
    (222r) Finit lamentatio Jeremie prophete. Oratio Jeremie prophete (Lam. v)
    (222v) Explicit liber Jeremie prophete secundum Hebraicam translationem
    Note
    (222v) Prol. to Ezekiel
    Incipit
    (222v) Ezechiel propheta cum loachim
    Note
    (222v) Initial decorative
    (245r) Prologue to Daniel
    Incipit
    (245r) Danihelem prophetam iuxta
    Note
    (245v) Initial. Daniel pointing upward to bust of Christ. Scroll, cum venerit sanctus sanctorum cessabit unctio
    (255r) Prologue to Twelve Prophets
    Incipit
    (255r) Non idem ordo
    Note
    (255r) Hos. Initial. Hosea with scroll in both hands. Recte vie domini iusti ambulabunt in eis
    (258r) Joel. Initial. Joel nimbed with scroll. Magnus enim dies domini et terribilis valde
    (259v) Amos. With scroll. Ve desiderantibus die(m domi)ni
    (261v) Obadiah with scroll. In monte Sion erit salvatio et vocabitur sanctus
    (262r) Jonah baldheaded, with scroll in both hands. Adhuc xl dies et ninive subvertetur. Below his feet the fish, with Jonah's head protruding from its mouth
    (263r) Micah, beardless with scroll. Erit mons domus domini preparatus in vertice montiunt
    (264v) Nahum. Preface
    Incipit
    (264v) Naum consolator
    Note
    (265r) Initial. Nahum with scroll. Dominus patiens est et magnus fortitudine
    (265v) Habakkuk. Preface
    Incipit
    (265v) Abacuc luctator
    Note
    (265v) Initial. Habakkuk with hand to head and scroll. Domine audivi auditionem tuam et timui
    (266v) Zephaniah. Preface
    Incipit
    (266v) Sophonias speculator
    Note
    (266v) Initial. Zephaniah nimbed with scroll. Sol convertetur in tenebras et luna in sanguinem
    (267v) Haggai. Preface
    Incipit
    (267v) Aggeus festiuus
    Note
    (267v) Initial. Bust of Haggai in medallion at top with scroll. Ecce veniet desideratus cunctis gentibus
    (268v) Zechariah. Preface
    Incipit
    (268v) Zacharias memor
    Note
    (268v) Initial like the last, scroll. Exulta satis filia syon ecce rex tuus venit
    (272r) Malachi. Preface
    Incipit
    (272r) Malachias aperte
    Note
    (272r) Initial. Malachi beardless with scroll. Quis poterit cogitare diem adventus domini
    Each of the minor prophets is described in title and colophon as secundum hebraicam veritatem
    (273r) Text ends
TJames
358
Stanley
Under C. 4
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/zv088kx4487
MS 003
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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