Volume 1

A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Gonville and Caius College / by Montague Rhodes James.

  • Gonville and Caius College
Date:
1907-1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Gonville and Caius College / by Montague Rhodes James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Panels f. jgga: qiiibus legitur et coiisuetiKlini])U.s utens. Dicamus igitur incipientes (beginning of the Politics). On the verso. Textus lib. ethicorum Arist. III. Of cent. xiv. Commentarius super Ethica, by Thomas Aquinas . . f. 200 Sicut philosophus dicit in primo methaphisice Sapientis est ordinare. Ends: quod quidem est continuacio ad librum politice et ter- minacio sentencie tocius libri ethicorum. On the verso : prec. xxxi®. viii'^. The last cover is lined with a leaf of a xvth cent, service-book with music on a four-line stave. Stuck to the first cover are two leaves of a xiv-xvth cent. MS. apparently Canon Law. 290. 682. ( C. M. A. 765 (2—8) I 766 [ James 285 Vellum, I3f x 9|, ff 357 -f 12, text, double columns of 40 lines, marginal writing 71 etc. lines. Cent, xiii late and xiv. Four leaves at each end from a xiiith cent, copy of the Digest. On flyleaf at beginning : Liber collegii Annunciacionis b. Marie Cantebrig’ ex dono Mag'' Ade Lakynggythe doctoris in theologia. Table of contents signed Cabolde. Liber Coll. Annunc. 1). Marie. Homo quid superbis 1. W (?). Collatio7t: a^ preceded and followed by flyleaf, U- | ii 121-^-22^2 (wants 12) 23i2_2^i2 (4-4*) 26^2_29i-’ 30® I 31^*^, 4+2 flyleaves. Contents: I. The main text consists of: Petri Lombardi Sententiarum Libri IV. Capitula. Omnis doctrina . . . . . . p. 25 Prol. Suscipientes (Cupientes) aliquid .... 29 Text. Ueteris ac noue legis . . . . . . 31 The first two have good decorative initials. The text has a good historiated initial representing the Church on Z. crowned, holding long cross and gold chalice. The Synagogue on R., the staff of her banner breaking; she drops the tables of the Law. Dark blue ground.
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