Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton.

  • Worcester Cathedral Library
Date:
1906
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Credit: Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. Glossa in Psalmos xxviii priores. ‘ Liber monasterii Wigornie.’ xiv or xv cent. Bib. Reg. 2 E. xi. Prophetae xii minores et Liber lob; cum glossis. This has the Thornhill inscription in it, as 3 A. viii. and 2 F. 1, &c. xiv cent. Bib. Reg. 2 F. i. 1. S. Pauli epistolae cum commentariis ex Origine, Am- brosio, etc. 2. De Sacramento Novi et Veteris Testament!*. 2 Libris. At end, ‘Liber ecclesie Mariae Wigor’, teste Guillelmo Thornhill eiusdem prebendario et thesaurario’ (William Thornhill installed 1584, and died 1626). IV. Cambridge University Library. M. M. 19. This has some accounts of the Worcester Priory at the beginning and belonged to Thomas Sheldesley. V. Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 157. Vellum, large 4to. Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis. The chronicle ends at the year 1140 in this copy. It was presented to C.C.C., Oxford, by PTenry Parry, A.M., 2 July, 1618. It had previously belonged to Thomas Straynsham, who gave it in exchange for another book to Thomas Powycke (Hardy’s Catalogue). xii cent. VI. By an order of the Chapter of 25 November, 1623, several duplicate MSS. were given to the Westminster Chapter Library, in compliance with a request from the Dean, Dr. John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln and Lord Keeper. The following is the list:— Augustinus de Civitate Dei. ' Idem de Verbis Domini. [F. 32. i h] Gregorii Pastorale. Prophetae xii cum glossa. [ft. 8.] Psalterium cum glossa. [F. 47.] 1 The references indicate the books of which those sent to Westminster were duplicates. There are now no MS. copies of Gregory’s Pastorale and Priscian in the Library ; and the fine copy of Augustine de civitate Dei, which is now E. 171, was not in the Library in 1623. ‘ Prometheus ’ I cannot identify.