Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1864
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/10
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Manuscript of the Fourteenth, or early in the Fifteenth Century. consists of 101 leaves. This Manuscript is altogether similar to the preceding, and is co- piously noted throughout in the margin, in the same hand as the preceding. It is written in fasciculi of 8 leaves, and con- tains 12 such fasciculi, with five leaves over, equal 101. The volume is quite perfect, and in beautifnl preservation. 182 Jeremias, cum glossis ordinaria et interlineari ; commentario Rabant Mauri, ete. | Vellum, folio, exactly similar to the preceding, and evi- dently in the same handwriting. Fol. 11. (an the text), “ deserto in terre.”’ A Manuscript of the Fourteenth or early in the Fifteenth Century. Contains 24 leaves. This book is also noted in the margin throughout, by the inser- tion of copious notes in the same hand apparently, but more carefully written than the preceeding. The volume, how- ever, is imperfect; it consists of three fasciculi of 8 leaves, which are perfect as far as they go, but end in the middle of Jer. xvi. 10. a Quare locutus est Dominus super nos omne TD, ois, o SNe he 183 “ Incipit tractatus Rabani supra actuum [sic] apostolorum.” Vellum, folio, initials in red, blue, and green, double columns. Fol. u. “ de duobus.” A Manuscript of the Twelfth Century. 40 leaves (five fasciculi of 8. This is the Commentary of Rhabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mayence in the ninth century. This volume is quite perfect, and in excellent preservation 184 Epistole SS. Augustine et Hieronimi Vellum, small folio, in double columns, initials coloured in green and red,and ornamented. Fol. iv. “ Tn Cenchris.” Contains 92 leaves, viz. ten fasciculi of 8* and two fasciculi of 9, and 2 leaves at the beginning. It is in beautiful preservation, but imperfect at the end. A Manuscript of the Twelfth Century. : Fol. 1, a, is blank. On Fol. 1, 6, in capital letters, the initials of each paragraph alternately green and red, is the following summary of the contents of the volume :— * Fasciculi iii. and viii. have 9 leaves.
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