A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts other than Oriental in the library of King's College, Cambridge / by Montague Rhodes James.

  • King's College (University of Cambridge). Library
Date:
1895
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Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts other than Oriental in the library of King's College, Cambridge / by Montague Rhodes James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Collation: a®-d®: 32 leaves. Contents: Aurelii Augustini libri iiii de natura et origine animae. Printed in Ed. Bened. x. 337. Vol. iii., part 1, ff. 22, in eights, double columns of 41 lines. Cent, xii-xiii. Collatio7i: a^ (7, 8 gone) b® (gone) c® (gone: but 6 was blank). Contents : Ejusdem liber de quantitate animae. Ed. Bened. i. 401. It breaks off with quantum ingenio (cap. xiv. § 23). It is preceded by Sententia B. Augustini doctoris de libro retractationum. (Ed. Bened. i. 399.) Vol. iii., part 2, ff. 12 (now numbered 7^-18*), double columns of 41 lines. Cent. xiii. Collation: b^® c*^ (4^ blank): 12 leaves. Contents : Supply to the deficiency of the previous copy from the words following quantum ingenio (cap. xiv. or § 23) to the end. This is a transcript of that part of the previous volume which is now missing, made when that copy was imperfect and disarranged: f. 17 was already lost, and ff. 7, 8 were loose and inserted between ff. 18 and 19. However, the copyist has written straight on without any hesitation, while the corrector has noted the deficiencies in the margin. Accurate measurement shows that this copy must have been made from one of which ff. 1-6 were not copied, f. 17 was wanting, f. 22 probably blank, and the remainder arranged as follows: 9-16, 18, 7, 8, 19-21. What should precede f. 7 is exactly enough to fill six leaves, and as we have ff. 1-6 of the earlier MS., it is a fair inference that the supply was re-written from the remainder of the earlier one when loose and dis- ordered. [H. B.] Mr Bradshaw has put his conclusions in another form, which I append. Suppose a copy with the following collation; a® b^ c® (6 blank): 22 leaves, 2 columns, 41 lines. Suppose the outer sheet of that is, ff. 17 and 22 (the latter blank), to be wanting. Suppose a 7 and a 8 loose, and thrust in between c 2 and c 3. Suppose a I -a 6 allowed to remain as they are, and then have the rest of the volume as it now stands transcribed in a volume of this collation : a® b‘* (45 blank): 12 leaves, 2 columns, 41 lines. You then have a transcript, written straight on, of ff. 7-22 in the following order :