Identifier:

170/331.

Scope and content:

1) ff. 1-70: Aaz apprehendens vel apprehencio. Aaz testificans vel testimonium . . . Zusitidis consilium vel consiliatrix. Zusim consiliantes eos vel consiliatores eorum. Expliciunt interpretationes bibliotece [Stegmüller 7709].

2) f. 70ra-rb: [Prologus in Matthew] Matheus cum primo predicasset euuangelium in Iudea volens transire ad gentes primus euuangelium scripsit ebraice ... in leone regnum, in aquila exprimitur divinitatis sacramentum [Stegmüller 589]. Remainder of column and f. 70v blank.

Acquisition information:

Written in England or France in the mid-thirteenth century. Erased inscription on f. 70. Belonged to Thomas Tylston Greg, whose bookplate ca. 1880 appears on the front pastedown with the motto “Ein doe and spair not,” see W. Hamilton, Dated Book-Plates (Ex-libris), with a Treatise on Their Origin and Development (London 1895) 168. Belonged to the English bibliographer W. W. Greg (1875-1959) whose signature appears on f. 11, “W.W. Greg, Park Lodge, 1920,” and who left pencil notes on f. iii. For other manuscripts from his collection see Bond and Faye, Supplement , p.78, 100, 390; British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1936-1945 part 1 (London 1970) 25 (Add. 44882-44884), 205-207 (Add. 45567-45573); and de la Mare, Lyell Cat. , 287. Slips from two unidentified sale catalogs are pasted on f. 70v; one bears an annotation in W. W. Greg's hand, “G.H. Last. Jan. 1920.” Purchased by UCLA from Bernard Rosenthal in 1964.

Physical description:

Parchment, ff. iii (modern; i is pastedown) + 70 + iii (modern; iii is pastedown); 160 × 110 (130 × 80) mm. 1-5 6 (-11, -12). Plain horizontal catchwords. 2 columns of 38 lines; ruled in leadpoint, single bounding lines and double frame ruling in the upper and lower margins; pricking in the upper and lower margins, seldom visible in the outer margin which has been cropped by binding. Small current gothic bookhand (littera textualis); olive brown ink. 2-line initials in red and green, with tendrils in red or green penwork, at times ending in a human face; 1-line initials to each entry alternately red and green (ff. 1-34v) or pink and green (ff. 34v-70); on f. 12v alternately red and pink. On f. 26 the initial D in red or green has been mistakenly applied to the first 20 words that should begin with E, following mistaken marginal instructions; usually the erroneous colored D is written over the correct E in brown ink.

Bound in dark leather over wooden boards rebacked, with remains of two metal fore-edge clasps, probably s. XV; title: “Interpretationes bibliothecae” in gilt capitals.

Bibliography:

R.H. Rouse, “A Twelfth-Century Glossary,” UCLA Librarian vol.18 (1965) pp.63-64.

Note:

Secundo folio: Abinaam patris mei

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