Fragmenta Manuscripta 014: In psalterium expositio
Information About This Item
Creator
Cassiodorus
Title
Fragmenta Manuscripta 014: In psalterium expositio
Date
1100–1150, especially 1125–1150
Description
Dimensions: 265 x 166 mm
Column dimensions: 237 x 70 mm
Two columns with 40 lines visible, 6 mm apart, bounding lines with additional single bounding line down center (5 mm from each grid). Used as a pastedown at some point.
Material: parchment
Ruling: lead point (?) at top on verso (flesh) for headline. Ruled line 14 mm above the written space for running title, which is written in brown capitals.
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
Stains, folds and/or tears: Hole present that was patched before writing; recto is badly stained. Trimmed on all sides.
Initials: five
Column dimensions: 237 x 70 mm
Two columns with 40 lines visible, 6 mm apart, bounding lines with additional single bounding line down center (5 mm from each grid). Used as a pastedown at some point.
Material: parchment
Ruling: lead point (?) at top on verso (flesh) for headline. Ruled line 14 mm above the written space for running title, which is written in brown capitals.
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
Stains, folds and/or tears: Hole present that was patched before writing; recto is badly stained. Trimmed on all sides.
Initials: five
Script: Early Gothic (Protogothic)
Note: This leaf has two 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. (Letter from T.A.M. Bishop, 14 Jan 1955).
See also T. A. M. Bishop, "Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part II," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 2, no. 2 (1955): 185–92.
See also T. A. M. Bishop, "Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part II," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 2, no. 2 (1955): 185–92.
Table Of Contents
Contents: Pertains to Pss. 135, 136.
Is Referenced By
T. A. M. Bishop, "Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part II," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 2, no. 2 (1955): 185–92.
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).
DS10087, 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).
DS10087, Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10087
Identifier
Fragmenta Manuscripta 014
Provenance
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.
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.
Language
Latin
Type
manuscript fragment
Coverage
England, Bury St. Edmunds