Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 141

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- Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 141
- CCCC MS 141
- MS 141
- Parker Library MS 141
Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Languages : Latin
Date of Origin :
- 1400 - 1599
Script :
- clearly written
Decoration :
- There are very handsome initials, principally in pen-work, to the divisions of the Catalogue: three elaborate ones are on f. 1r. On the margin of this has been a picture.A roughly painted diaper ground remains, but an oblong patch, probably of finer vellum, which must have had a figure (either a suppliant or a dead man in a coffin), is gone. Above this an early copper engraving has been pasted on the page and torn off all except a small corner.
Support Material : Vellum
Composition :
- ff. 112 + 3
Dimensions :
- 222 x 343
Codicological details :
- varying numbers of lines to a page
- ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-112 + iii + c-d
- a(2) 1(10) 2(12) (7 canc.) 3(10) (+1) 4(10) 5(8) (+1) 6(10) (two canc.) 7(2) (+1) 8(8) 9(2) 10(10) (one canc.) | 11(8)-14(8) (wants 8) b(1).

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Résumé : CCCC MS 141, dating to c. 1500, contains the catalogue of the books of the Brigittine monastery of Syon. Its text has been printed twice, by Bateson and by Gillespie and Doyle. Several of the books listed have been identified with extant manuscripts in various collections.

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Langue(s) des textes : latin

1r-109r - Registrum bibliothece de Syon || Catalogue of the Library of Syon Monastery
Note : ff. 109v-112v are blank leaves which have been ruled out but contain no text

Notes

Research: The volume was admirably edited by Miss Bateson, Cambridge 1898, at the University Press.