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Commentary on the Pauline epistles : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-129v: [Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles]: Rubric: Incipit Tractatus Sancti Ambrosii In Epistola Ad Romanos, Paulus servus ihesu christi. Incipit: Apud veteres [nostros ratione] nomina componebantur ut ysaac propter risum ... Explicit: ut securos illos faciat et erigat ne timeant que irrogari possunt a perfidis sed in persecutione alacres//. [This manuscript missing 4 quires after f. 112 (end of commentary on 2 Corinthians, all of Galatians, all of Ephesians, beginning of Philippians); missing one leaf after f. 126 (part of Colossians); missing undetermined amount after f. 127 (end of Colossians, all of 1 Timothy, beginning of 2 Timothy); missing undetermined amount after f. 129 (end of 2 Timothy, all of Titus, all of Philemon); 1 and 2 Thessalonians are copied before Colossians. Each epistle commentary remaining with incipit (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Colossians) is prefaced by a chapter list; the chapter lists in this copy of Ambrosiaster retain forms of the Vetus Latina recension].
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Date
[between 1130 and 1140]
Call number
mssHM 52435
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Ambrosiaster(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
This book was still at Winchcombe under the direction of Richard Kidderminster (abbot, 1488-1525), when it received its present binding. Said in the literature (Dawson's typescript description [1950]; Doheny catalogue 1955; Bond and Faye 1962; Christie's sale catalogue 1987) to have belonged to Sir John Prise, a commissioner for the visitation of the monasteries in 1535 and 1539. This ownership seems posited on the fact that Jesus College 102 belonged to Prise and that the two manuscripts (the present one and Jesus College 102) are in very similar bindings. However, the binding of both was certainly done while the books were still at Winchcombe. Moreover, Prise's will directs that his books go to Hereford Cathedral and to Jesus College; neither of the other Winchcombe books that passed by inheritance through the Cope family shows any evidence of ownership by Prise. (See N. R. Ker, "Sir John Prise," The Library, ser. 5, vol. 10 (1955) 1-24, esp. p. 15, listing an Ambrosiaster that did belong to Prise (London, Brit. Lib., Burney 42; whence some of the present confusion?), and pp. 19-20, discussing the Winchcombe origin of the present manuscript in the context of Prise's ownership of Jesus College 102). May have belonged to Sir Walter Cope (see A. G. Watson, "The Manuscript Collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614)," Bodleian Library Record 12 (1987) 262-297, discussing this manuscript on pp. 274, 291-292). The book was in the library of the descendants of Sir Anthony Cope, a brother of Sir Walter; it was recorded in the Cope inventory compiled ca. 1772 as n. 6. Sale of Sir Anthony Cope of Bramshill Park, Winchfield, Hampshire, Sotheby's, 4 March 1913, lot 4 to Barnard. On the front pastedown the bookplate of E. F. Bosanquet; his sale, Sotheby's, 24 June 1944, lot 64 to Maggs. Also on the front pastedown, in pencil, the note, "George A. Goyder, Maltby, Oxford, 1944"; sold by him to Maggs in 1950. On the back pastedown, the name of Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles and the date June 1950; a typescript description from Dawson's is with the book. Acquired at that time from Dawson's by Carrie Estelle Doheny (on whose collecting see E. Shaffer, "Reminiscences of a California Collector: Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny 1875-1958," The Book Collector 14 (1965) 49-59). Doheny accession number 6385 on f. 129v. Mrs. Doheny left her extensive collection to the library she built at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California, in the archdiocese of Los Angeles, as a memorial to her husband. Sold by the archdiocese through Christie's, 2 December 1987, lot 141 to Maggs for the Huntington Library as a gift of the Dan Murphy Foundation in memory of Bernardine Murphy Donohue.
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RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
260 x 340 mm
Associated people
Price, John, (1502?-1555,)
Doheny, Estelle, (1875-1958,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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    ff. 1-86v: [Hannibaldus de Hannibaldis, Super libros I-IV Sent.; abbreviated version of books 1 and 3 only] Incipit: Cupientes aliquid et cetera. Hic queruntur quinque. Primo utrum aliquis veritati insistere debeat que excedit facultatem sui intellectus ... Explicit: fides est una licet diversa enuciabilia formentur sed diversum modum accipiendi ut accipiatur presens preterita vel futura. [ff. 87-89v blank] ff. 90-100v. [Unidentified commentary on the third book of the Sentences]: Incipit: Cum igitur venit plenitudo temporis ut ait apostolus misit deus filium suum natum de virgine et cetera. Determinato in libro precedenti de rerum exitu a principio. In hoc tertio incipit magister determinare de reditu divinarum rerum in finem scilicet deum ... Explicit: In oppositionem prime partis conclusionis arguitur Omnes virtutes anime vegetalis scilicet active secundum commentationem qui in secondo de anima ponit hanc distinctionem.

    103533a

  • Georgics ; Aeneid ; and other Latin verse : [manuscript]

    Georgics ; Aeneid ; and other Latin verse : [manuscript]

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    f. 1. [List of noble and plebian Roman families]. Incipit: Familię Nobiles Romanorum, Hostilii, Iunii ex quibus Brutus, Vallerii. Explicit: Terrentii, Aurelii, Porcii. Latin. Note added in a later cursive hand. f. 1. Vita Livii. Incipit: Titus Livius auctor presentis operis hystoriographus. Explicit: Et hodie patavii cernitur eius saxeus tumulus in monasterio sancte Iustine cum huiuscemodi saxo incisis litteris. Latin. E. Pellegrin, ed., "Notes sur quelques manuscrits de textes classiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque Vaticane," Revue d'Histoire des Textes 1 (1971) 190 with proof offered by the epigraphic inscription on Livy's tomb "in the monastery of St. Giustina in Padua." Added in the same hand as the first text. f. 1. [Jerome] Epistula 53 ad Paulinum. Incipit: Ad Titum Livium lacteo eloquentie fonte manantem [sic]. Explicit: ut urbem tantam ingressi aliud extra urbem quererent. Rubric: Idem in prologo genesis. Latin. Excerpt from Jerome, Epistula 53 ad Paulinum. I. Hilberg, ed., S. Hieronymi Epistulae. CSEL 54 (Vienna 1910) 443-44. Added in the same hand as the first two texts. f. 1. [Giovanni Antonio Porcelli Pandoni?] [Descriptio gratiarum per porcelium Vatem Romanum Poem]. Incipit: Sunt nudę carites niveo de marmore at illas/ Diva columna suis edibus intus habet. Explicit: Inde aliter cecus placida sub matre cupido/ Inde voluptates inde alimenta dei. Rubric: Descriptio gratiarum per porcelium Vatem Romanum. Latin. Same poem in Vatican, Pal. lat. 907, f. 103v, in 10 verses; here in 12 verses attributed to Giovanni Antonio Porcelli Pandoni (ca. 1405-after January 1485), protégé of Pius II. Added in a humanistic hand. f. 1v. [Servius] [Mauri Servii Honorati Gamatici [?] In tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit et Primo In Bucolica]. Incipit: Bucolica ut ferunt inde dicta a custodia boum. Explicit: fluctu tam littora. Necque saxosas inter decurrunt flumina valles. Rubric: Mauri Servii Honorati Gamatici [?] In tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit et Primo In Bucolica. Latin. Other creator(s): Commentarii in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica. G. Thilo, ed., Servii grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica Commentarii (Leipzig 1887) 1-4. Added in a cursive hand, s. XVI. ff. 2-37v. [Vergil] [Georgics]. Incipit: Quid faciat letas segetes quo sidere terram. Explicit: Corporaque ipsa bovum frondoso desere luco [erased catchword:] Post ubi//. Rubric: Publii maronis vergilii Georgicorum liber primus. Latin. R. A. B. Mynors, ed., P. Vergili Maronis opera (Oxford 1969) 29-100, breaking defectively in 4, 543. Here preceded by the Pseudo Ovidian verses, " Versus ovidii super libro Gergicorum [sic] virgilii primo, Quid faciat letas segetes que sidera servet . . . Et docuit messes cum magno fedore [sic] reddi," edited in A. Riese, ed., Anthologia latina (Leipzig 1894-1906) n. 2. ff. 38-204. [Vergil] [Aeneid]. Incipit: Arma virumque cano troie qui primus ab horis. Explicit: Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras. Latin. Mynors, 103-422, with 2 leaves missing after f. 104, containing Book 6, 1-105. The entire text is preceded by an Argumentum generale, " Primum habet libicam veniant ut troes in urbem . . . Ultimum imponit bello turni nece finem." The books of the Aeneid are preceded by Pseudo Ovidian verses, edited in Anthol. lat., n. 1. f. 204. [Praefatio Aeneidis]. Incipit: Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus avena. Explicit: Gratum opus agricolis At nec horrentia martis. Arma virumque cano. Latin. C. Hardie, ed., Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae (Oxford 1966) 16. Although the text constitutes an introduction to the Aeneid, it is nontheless a preface. f. 204r-v. [Vergil] [Aeneid, excerpt]. Incipit: Aut ignibus egro dedere/ Iamque adeo super unus eram cum limina veste. Explicit: Talia iactabam et furiata mente ferebar/ Cum michi se non ante, alia. Latin. Aeneid, 2, 566-589, the episode of the encounter with Helen in burning Troy, supposedly suppressed by Virgil's friends, Tucca and Varius, and thus not copied in the normal sequence on f. 61; here copied straight on after the preceding text, i.e. the Praefatio Aeneidis. f. 204v. [Verses]. Incipit: Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane. Latin. Five sets of verses: Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane/ Divisum imperium cum iove cesar habens [2 verses; Anthol. lat., n. 256]; Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honorem/ Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves/ Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes [3 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 257; 2 verses added in the margin in a noting hand:] Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves/ Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves; [space] Meonium quisquis romanus nescit homerum . . . Hec grais constant singula trina michi [6 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 674a]; [space] Sus iuvenis serpens casum venere sub unum . . . Hic fremit ille gemit sibilat hic moriens [4 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 160, footnote]. f. 205. [Martial] [Epigrammata]. Incipit: Si memini fuerant tibi quatuor helia dentes. Explicit: Nil istic quod agat tertia tussis habet. Latin. W. Heraeus, ed., M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton liber (Leipzig 1929) 15, here n. 1, 19. ff. 205-206. [Verses]. Incipit: Ergone supremis potuit vox improba verbis. Latin. Six sets of verses: Ergone supremis potuit vox improba verbis . . . Laudetur vigeat placeat relegatur ametur [36 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 672]; [space] Mantua me genuit calabri rapuere tenet nunc . . . [12 distichs with epitaphs of Vergil, Anthol. lat. nn. 506 bis-516, 518; followed straight on by:] Cedite romani scriptores cedite grai/ Nescio quid maius nascitur yliade [2 verses; Propertius, Elegiae, 3, 32, 65-66; Anthol. lat. n. 264]; Defensor patrie iuvenum fortissimus ethor [sic] . . . 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  • Works by Ephraem and othe church fathers : [manuscript]

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  • Psalter ; English Psalter Commentary ; Holy Boke Gracia Dei ; and other works : [manuscript]

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    Contents Part 1. ff. 1-22v. Holy Boke Gratia Dei. Incipit: Off gods grace sterand and helpande and þat withouten grace no gode may be done. Explicit: hit is on þe night to pray for it is tyme of rest for þeuer is noght þat lettes als is ouer þe day In day man is with trauell. Rubric: Here begynnes þe holy boke gracia dei. English. Other creator(s): Richard Rolle, sometime attributed to. Jolliffe I. 29 (a). M. L. Arntz, S.N.D., "þe Holy Boke Gratia Dei: an Edition with Commentary," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham University 1961, from Lincoln Cathedral Library, MS 91 (the so-called Thornton manuscript), London, Brit. Lib., Arundel 507 and HM 148, treating as one text and as anonymous, what had been attributed to Richard Rolle and printed as multiple short texts in different order by C. Horstman, ed., Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and his Followers (London 1895-96) 1:305-21, 300-05, 145-49, 112-21, 149-51; the divisions are not signaled in HM 148, in which this material constitutes a unit. See also H. E. Allen, Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle (New York 1927) 286-87 and G. R. Keiser, "þe Holy Boke Gratia Dei," Viator 12 (1981) 289-317. Of the text of Gratia Dei, HM 148 retains the introduction, the first part and all but the conclusion of the second part. Part 2. ff. 23-192. [Richard Rolle] Psalter in Latin with English commentary. Incipit: Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum et in via peccatorum non stetit et in cathedra pestilencie non sedit. In þis psalme frist he spekes of crist. Explicit: þan with erees of body forþi ilke a spirite loue þe lorde. Amen. Latin. Stegmüller 7303. H. E. Allen, ed., English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole (Oxford 1931) 4-7 for the English prologue; for the Latin prologue, not printed, see Stegmüller 7298; for the psalter, H. R. Bramley, ed., The Psalter or Psalms of David and certain Canticles with a Translation and Exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole (Oxford 1884) 5-493; this manuscript in the original version without Wycliffite interpolations; at the head of Pss. 52-150 (excepting a few of these psalms) Latin interpretations or resumés of the subject matter; notes in the margins by a later hand give readings for matins and evensong according to the Book of Common Prayer; quire 5 (ff. 71-82) and 6 (ff. 83-94) reversed in the binding. See A. C. Paues, A Fourteenth Century English Biblical Version Cambridge 1902) xxxiv, and D. Everett, "The Middle English Prose Psalter of Richard Rolle of Hampole," Modern Language Review 17 (1922) 217-27, especially p. 222. Part 2. f. 192-203v. [Richard Rolle] Canticles. Incipit: Confitebor tibi domine quoniam iratus es michi, conversus est furor tuus et consolatus es me. I sal schrife til þe lorde for þou arte wrathede til me. Explicit: he bringes vs oute of al wrechidnes of synne and sorowe & settis vs in þe ioye of heuyn. Amen. English. Stegmüller 7304. Bramley, 494-526; here with the 7 canticles Confitebor, Ego dixi, Exultavit, Cantemus domino, Domine audivi, Audite celi, Magnificat. Part 2. ff. 204-206. [Richard Rolle] Commandment Of God. Incipit: þe commawnde of god is þat we luf oure lorde in all oure hert in all oure saule in all oure thoght, in all oure hert þat is in all oure vndyrstandyng withouten heryng. Explicit: and qwen þai dy þai er taken vp to þe ordyr of aungels to see hym in endlys ioy þat þai haue lufd. Amen. English. Horstman, 1:61-71. H. E. Allen, English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole (Oxford 1931) 73-81. Part 2. ff. 206-208v. Commentary on Two Commandments of the New Law. Incipit: Diliges dominum deum tuum et cetera. þou sall luf god with all þi hert with all þi saule & with all þi thoght. To luf god with all thi hert is noght els bot þat þi nere be noght lufand. Explicit: bodely gudes is man noght halden bot in case of nede Amen. English. Jolliffe G. 27. Horstman 2:454-55, here in a different and longer version. See also Allen, Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle, 366-68. Part 2. f. 208v-210. Vitas patrum. Incipit: In þe fyrst begynnyng if a man begyn to knaw hymself what he is & why he was made. Explicit: he may not parfytly kepe & fulfyll þe speciall beddyngs of þe haligast. Jesus amen. Rubric: Her begynnes a pistille of saynt machari hermet sende to his breþer in vitas patrum. English. Jolliffe H. 12 (b) and O. 22 (b). For the Latin, see PL 67:1163-1166. Part 2. ff. 210-211v. Epistle of St. John the Hermit. Incipit: Greuouse is þe vice of bostyng & pride & full perilouse hit is for it kests doune saules fro þe heghnes of parfeccioune. Explicit: I fleande lenkethede me & duellyde in only stede & alude hym þat sauede me fro storme of þe spyryt. English. Jolliffe F. 10 and O. 16. Horstman, 1:122-24. Part 2. ff. 211v-221v. Sayings of Fathers. Incipit: A Broþire asket sant antonyus what schall I do to plese gode Ande he ansuerde þus kepe what I say whidyre so þou gose. Explicit: bot if þu haue synne þou may not do ryghtwysnes as it is wrytyn//. English. Horstman, 1:125-28, here in a different version, ending defectively. For the Latin "Verba Seniorum," Book 5 of the Vitae Patrum from which this derives, see PL 73:855-940.

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    Regiment of princes : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-82v. [Thomas Hoccleve]. Regiment of Princes. Incipit: Musyng vpon the restelesse besynesse/ Wyche that this troubly worlde hath ay on honde. . .[f. 32:] Hic incipit prologus de principum regimine, Hy noble and myȝty prince excellent/ my lord the prince o my lorde gracious. Explicit: Hic trattat de principum regimine incipiendo de fide servanda, Now gracious prince agayn that the corone/ honour thou schal with ryal dignite. . .In swyche a cas ys wysdam to schaunge/ good ys your counsell be to your foos straunge//. Latin. IMEV 2229. F. J. Furnivall, ed., Hoccleve's Works. EETS es 72 (London 1897); 1 leaf missing after f. 29 with loss of stanzas 233-240; 4 leaves missing after f. 30 with loss of stanzas 249-280; 1 leaf missing after f. 67 with loss of stanzas 577-584; text ends defectively at the end of stanza 704 with loss of the final 76 stanzas, presumably 9 to 10 folios. Disorder in the text with respect to the printed edition: on f. 39v, in stanza 352, line 2460 precedes line 2458; on f. 76v, stanza 659 is copied between stanzas 654 and 655. That the scribe was copying from his exemplar page by page is shown by the disorder on f. 51: stanzas 421 and 422 were copied in their correct order at the top of f. 48v; they were then repeated after stanza 440 at the top of f. 51 (conjunct to f. 48, in positions 5 and 8 of quire 5); the scribe evidently became aware of his error at the end of stanza 422, because its last line was not copied; the scribe then placed the required stanza 441 in the outer margin, copied stanzas 442 and 443 in the normal text space, but was forced to place stanza 444 in the outer margin to recoup space and catch up with his exemplar for the beginning of f. 51v. For a list of 43 manuscripts, including HM 135, see M. C. Seymour,"The Manuscripts of Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes," Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions 4 pt. 7 (1974) 253-97. ff. 83-86v. [Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life]. Incipit: //Go from me & make the a frere/ Myn age ys now in xl ȝere. Explicit: Wyth outen synne thedyr to wende/ Wyth loue to sen that fayre face. Amen. [space] Here ys wryten how mankynde dothe wende/ Wanne the lyf ys browȝt to the ende. Explicit totum. Latin. IMEV 1259. F. J. Furnivall, ed.,"Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life," Hymns to the Virgin and Christ. EETS os 24 (London 1867) 58-78; with respect to the printed edition, the stanzas in HM 135 are: 39, 41-43, 46-47, 44-45, 35, 54, 52-53, 49, 63, 59, 55-58, 48, 50, 61-62, with a leaf missing after f. 85, 74 (last 2 lines only), 77-81.

    mssHM 135

  • Register of writs : [manuscript]

    Register of writs : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-104v: [Register of writs; beginning defectively in the section on trespass and ending defectively in the section on writs of attaint; at least 7 quires missing with loss of text at the beginning (2 quires), after f. 56 (3 quires), f. 64 (1 quire), f. 72 (1 quire) and an unknown amount at the end].

    mssHM 45147