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GLOSSED GOSPELS OF MATTHEW AND MARK, in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[France, mid-12th century]
266 x 168mm. 84 leaves, 17(of 8, lacking ii), 28(of 8, ii and vi singletons), 3-58, 65(of 5), 7-118, final five gatherings with quire numbers i-v in centre lower margin of final versos, up to 21 lines of lemmata and up to 48 lines of gloss written in a protogothic bookhand in brown ink between six verticals and up to 21 and 48 horizontals ruled in plummet, rubrics, titles, incipits and added chapter numbers in red (outer folios darkened and spotted, outer margins of most folios affected by damp, small areas of rodent damage to final 20 leaves). Modern purple velvet.
PROVENANCE:
Freiherr A.W von Westenholz, Hamburg: his bookplate on endleaf
CONTENT:
Gospel of Matthew, chapter 15, verse 27 to end ff.1-44v (lacking one
leaf with Matthew 15,37-16,11); Preface to the Gospel of Mark ff.45-46v; Gospel of Mark to chapter 9, verse 47 ff.47-84v
Marginal and interlinear extracts from Bede and Jerome gloss the Biblical text in an arrangement that must antedate the sophisticated page-layouts where biblical text and gloss were integrated into a unified ruling-pattern. The manuscript was no doubt produced before the glossa ordinaria, completed around 1130, came to supersede all earlier commentaries.
[France, mid-12th century]
266 x 168mm. 84 leaves, 1
PROVENANCE:
Freiherr A.W von Westenholz, Hamburg: his bookplate on endleaf
CONTENT:
Gospel of Matthew, chapter 15, verse 27 to end ff.1-44v (lacking one
leaf with Matthew 15,37-16,11); Preface to the Gospel of Mark ff.45-46v; Gospel of Mark to chapter 9, verse 47 ff.47-84v
Marginal and interlinear extracts from Bede and Jerome gloss the Biblical text in an arrangement that must antedate the sophisticated page-layouts where biblical text and gloss were integrated into a unified ruling-pattern. The manuscript was no doubt produced before the glossa ordinaria, completed around 1130, came to supersede all earlier commentaries.