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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    After which follow the lines, ‘ Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat. Hec summa expleta est a presbytero abbrico pa- piense [PAlberic of Pavia] Millesimo ducentesimo li ab incarnacione domini de mense decembris.’ (1251.) 2. Brocarda Bartholomei Brixiensis. Inc. f. 131. ‘Quia secundum iuris uarietatem.’ The name of Bartholomeus Brixiensis appears in the prologue. The title is ‘ Brocarda dictamina Vngatim/ of which it is impossible to make sense : vngatim may perhaps be for virgatim, i.e. ‘by paragraphs.’ Bartholomew of Brescia was a well-known writer on Canon Law. Rebound as 6. Initials finely illuminated. Marginal notes here and there, chiefly headings of subjects. Curious distortions of letters under ‘ De Penis.’ Some legal memoranda of offences and fines of various persons on first three leaves, and some legal documents copied in at the end. xiii cent. F. 8. Petri Lombardi Sententie. Inc. ‘ Cupientes aliquid de penuria/ Expl. ‘ usque via duce peruenit.’ For Peter Lombard see on F- 2. Rebound as 6. Rubricated throughout. Fine initials in red and blue. Some notes on the book on first and last two fly-leaves. On 2nd fly-leaf the following note of the book being pledged in 1314 :— ‘ Caucio fratris F. de Sancto Germano exposita communi ciste Magistri Luce pro quadraginta solidis solutis in die apostolorum petri et pauli videlicet iste liber sententiarum prima .... et .... de legato et luce anno domini millesimo ccc quarto decimo.’ xiii cent. F. 9. Flavii Iosephi Antiquitates et libri de bello Iudaico. Inc. ‘ In principio creavit dominus.’ This is prefaced by ‘ Eusebii Hieronymi laus Iosephi.’ De Bello Iudaico begins f. 230. Rebound as 6. Fly-leaves removed in rebinding. Borders well illuminated and initials in red and blue. At the bottom of the pages some letters of the text distorted into flourishes and ornament. xiv cent. F. 10. Liber sermonum. Some are in English, as on ff. 42—54. At f. 25, in the middle of a sermon, otherwise entirely in Latin, is the following piece of English, which might be the fragment of a Passion Play :—