Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    quattnor facies ” and ending “ comminaciones que males terrent ” ; a third preface, being the paragraphs which in Migne follow the table of chapters (coll. 45, 46), beg. “ Notum facimus lectori ” and ending “hucusque Hieronymus” (f. 22) ; the prologue of St. Luke with the commentary of St. Ambrose and Bede, and the colophon “explicit preseries” (f. 22 b). The table of chapters of the first book follows, omitting the “ admonitio lectori ” prefixed to it in Migne (“ Sicut ex creaturis . . . corrigere velint”); and the text of the Gospels, with the commentary, begins on f. 23. It concludes with the words “ ad diem ascensionis sue,” omitting the last clause given in Migne. At the end is a table showing where to find the lessons for the various church festivals (f. 190), and a glossary of the proper names and other “ barbarous ” words used in the Gospel (f. 191b). Vellum; ff. 194. xvth cent. In double columns of 50 lines. Initials in red and blue; references and titles in red. At the end of the Concordance (f. 189 b) is given the name of the scribe, Eoger Albon, a Carmelite. Eolio. 9. Concordance or Harmony of the Gospels, in Latin, the four narratives being combined into one by selection of passages from each. Begins with John i. 1, “In principio erat Verbum,” and ends with the last words of the same Gospel, “ qui scribendi sunt libros,” followed by the colophon, “ Explicit sanctum evangelium domini nostri lesu Cristi secundum quatuor evangelistas Matheum Marcum Lucam et lohannem.” A table of contents, with refer- ences to folios, is added at the end. Eeferences are placed in the margin at the beginning of each section, and initial letters are in red. Paper; ff. 172. End of xvth cent. The fly-leaves (ff. i., ii.), which were fastened to the old binding, are fragments of a Latin lectionary on vellum, of the 14th cent. The stamped leather of the original binding is now laid down inside the modern covers. Duodecimo.
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