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The complete New Testament with prologues, written in a tiny script, except for text missing at the end of John (after 19.23) and the beginning of Romans (before 2.10). Extensive brief marginal notes throughout, very English in style, mostly indicate cross-references but also include some corrections. Preceding the Bible text is a highly compressed lectionary, listing citations and minimal incipits in four columns, on which is written in a later hand a title and a list of the books of the New Testament (f. 1r). Following the Bible text is a 5-line verse serving as a mnemonic device for the 10 Eusebian canons (Quatuor est primus ... Decimo sua cuique repono; Walther, Initia 15297), marked with 10 letters in red. This serves as a preface to a 200-line metrical digest and concordance of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (incipit A Generat B magos vocat ...; Walther, Initia 37), marked repeatedly with the same 10 letters to indicate each phrase's status in the Eusebian canonical tables and numbers to indicate the chapters of parallel passages in other gospels (f. 60v-61v). The manuscript breaks off abruptly at Luke 20, with the end of Luke and all of the Gospel of John missing at the end of the summary.
Support: parchment; Extent: 61 leaves : 196 x 132 (140 x 92) mm. bound to 198 x 148 mm; Foliation: Parchment, 61; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
New Testament written in 2 columns of 63 lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; double horizontal bounding-lines (f. 1v-60v). Metrical digest written in 2 columns of 33-41 lines, written on every other line to leave room for letters and numbers above each line; frame-ruled in faint ink; triple vertical bounding-lines left of left column and quadruple vertical bounding-lines left of right column, creating narrow columns for chapter numbers, paragraph marks, and the first letter of each line (f. 60v-61v).
Written in a Gothic cursive script.
Puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and the first epistle of Peter (f. 9v, 14r, 22r, 45r, 54r); numerous initials, most 1-line, but up to 8-line, in blue flourished with red or red flourished with turquoise; running book titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue characters; rubrics in red; Eusebian letters in metrical digest in red.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England?
Probably written in England in the mid-13th century.
Later vellum, lined with a fragment of a leaf containing Luke 5.17-25, beginning with a 4-line initial in blue flourished with red, from an antiphonary that was written in two columns with rubrics in red and 1-line initials alternating in red and blue.
Latin
Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside lower cover), 1966.
England?
Probably written in England in the mid-13th century.
Latin
Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr.
The complete New Testament with prologues, written in a tiny script, except for text missing at the end of John (after 19.23) and the beginning of Romans (before 2.10). Extensive brief marginal notes throughout, very English in style, mostly indicate cross-references but also include some corrections. Preceding the Bible text is a highly compressed lectionary, listing citations and minimal incipits in four columns, on which is written in a later hand a title and a list of the books of the New Testament (f. 1r). Following the Bible text is a 5-line verse serving as a mnemonic device for the 10 Eusebian canons (Quatuor est primus ... Decimo sua cuique repono; Walther, Initia 15297), marked with 10 letters in red. This serves as a preface to a 200-line metrical digest and concordance of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (incipit A Generat B magos vocat ...; Walther, Initia 37), marked repeatedly with the same 10 letters to indicate each phrase's status in the Eusebian canonical tables and numbers to indicate the chapters of parallel passages in other gospels (f. 60v-61v). The manuscript breaks off abruptly at Luke 20, with the end of Luke and all of the Gospel of John missing at the end of the summary.
Ms. codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Written in a Gothic cursive script.
Puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and the first epistle of Peter (f. 9v, 14r, 22r, 45r, 54r); numerous initials, most 1-line, but up to 8-line, in blue flourished with red or red flourished with turquoise; running book titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue characters; rubrics in red; Eusebian letters in metrical digest in red.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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