Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hakon V., King of Norway, circ. 1300, but completed, from Exodus, ch. XX. onwards, by adopting the earlier GySinga Sogur (“ Sagas of the Jews”) of Brand Jonsson, Bishop of Holar (o&. 1264): see Gudbrand Vigfusson, Sturlunga Saga, Oxford, 1878, Prolegomena, p. cxxxv. The later compilation is partly based on the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor (oh. 1179) and the Speculum His- toriale of Vincent de Beauvais (oh. circ. 1264). The whole was edited by Carl Unger, Christiania, 1862. Paper; if. 376. An xviiith cent, transcript of a MS. in the library of the University of Copenhagen. Folio. 7. Biblia Pauperum, consisting of rudely executed and coloured drawings representing the typical events of Old Testament History and their corresponding fulfilments in the Life of our Lord, with appropriate texts from the Vulgate. There are in addition numerous drawings of heads of prophets, kings, etc. Beneath each principal drawing is a descriptive Latin hexameter. The texts and lines correspond with those in King’s MS. 5. Vellum ; ff. 55. xvth cent. On f. 2 are the words “ Orate pro anima Georgii Plompton, sacerdotis” (15th cent.); and the follow- ing names occur as those of owners :—Christopher Staynforthe (15th cent.), f. 54 b;—Thomas Smythe (16th cent.), f. 22 b;— William Cockerd, 1652. f. 41 ;—P. Lodman, Eobert Bourgh, and Henry Brough (17th cent.), f. 20 b. The fly-leaves (flf. 1, 54, 55) consist of three leaves containing portions of ordinances (in French') relating to wool merchants and others, early 15th cent. Quarto. 8. Zacharias Chrysopolitanus in unum ex quattuor sive de concordia Evangelistarum: the Concordance to the Gospels, with commentary, of Zacharias of Chrysopolis [variously supposed to be Goldborough in Yorkshire and Besangon in France]. He has recently been identified with Zacharias, “ ductor scholarum ” at the church of St. Jean de Besan9on in 1134 (U. Eobert, in the Bihl. de VEcole des Chartes, vol. xxxiv., 1873, p. 880). Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. clxxxvi. In this MS. fi’. 3 b-9 contain the table of “ capitula,” i.e. the first words of each of the Ammonian sections, with the number of the section and the Eusebian canon to which each belongs. Then follow the table of Eusebian canons (ff. 9 b-13), the “preseries Zacharie crisopolitani in unum ex quattuor,” beg. “De excellentia evangelii” (ff. 14-21); the preface (the second in Migne) “Matheus cognomento Levi” (f. 21); another preface (the third in Migne) “Unum ex quatuor ” (f. 21 b), with an additional paragraph, which looks as if it should rather have belonged to the first preface, beg. “ Cuique evangelistarum sunt