Cassiodorus

Fragmenta Manuscripta 014: In psalterium expositio

1100 - 1199

Contents: Pertains to Pss. 135, 136.

Script: Caroline minuscule

Notes: This leaf has 2 companion leaves in Cambridge University Library, Add. 4406(1). The script in same hand as two other Bury manuscripts: Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 18 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, e Mus. 31. (T.A.M. Bishop, 14 Jan 1955).

Decoration: One decorated initial, four-line, blue with double foliate scroll in brown and blue; three initials from two- to five-lines high in red or blue

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10087

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 434-75.

Columbia (MO), University of Missouri, Ellis Library, MS Fragmenta Manuscripta 14, in N.R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, digital edn, ed. Richard Sharpe and James M. W. Willoughby, 2010–15).

Fragmenta Manuscripta 014

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr.

Acquisition: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Parchment - 265 x 166 mm - Two columns with 40 lines visible, bounding lines with additional single bounding line down center (5mm from each grid), lead point (?) ruling at top on verso (flesh) for headline.

Latin

manuscript fragment

England, Bury St. Edmunds