DCL MS. C.III.8Laurentius Hispanus, Glossa palatina super Decreta
Held by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts

Laurentius Hispanus, Glossa palatina super Decreta, written in England in the early 13th century

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m9593tv23q.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: iii+133+i f
Size: 345 mm x 224 mm

Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, starting with “1” on the first leaf with text


Secundo folio: quia dicit
Collation

unfoliated flyleaves2, I-III8, IV6, V-VI8, VII12 (=10 [f.47-56]+2 [f.57-58]), VIII6, IX-XIII8, XIV5 (=6 with 6 cancelled), XV-XVIII8

Catchwords: Contemporary catchwords (survive) on quires I-V, VI (erased, though it seems to have been correct), X-XI, XIII, and XV.
Signatures: Signatures (Roman numerals) on first rectos, lower margin, running ‘I’-‘XII’; none visible on quire XIII; ‘XIIII’, ‘XVII’-‘XIX’ – indicating the loss of two quires from between the present XIV and XV at f.109/110. Quire XV alone has leaf lettering in the first half of the quire.
Layout

Text block: 254 x 156 mm. Two columns (width: 75 mm). 72 lines.

Script

Written in Textualis libraria, compact. Number of hands uncertain: numerous minor variations in practice.

Decoration

supplied in text ink in quires I-V, VIII, XI-XII, and XIV. None in quires VI-VII, IX-X, XIII. Spaces reserved for initials (3 lines high) unfilled.

Binding

18th century Waghorn binding. Sewn on 5 bands. One metal clasp (reused from older binding; cf. that on B.III.28). Stain from turn-over from earlier binding on f.133v. Rust-stained holes from fittings for a pair of clasps from earlier binding on first flyleaf.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in England, early 13th century.

Provenance

Inscriptions: “.V.”, 14th/15th century
“Doctor super decreta”, early 15th century, f.1r, upper margin
“Glosa super Decreta.”, early 14th century, first unnumbered flyleaf, recto.
“Fyschborn iu”, early 14th century, second unnumbered flyleaf, verso (John Fishburn junior, monk of Durham c.1397-1411x12.
“2a 8i C”, 15th century, f.1r, upper margin, right.
Added to the Spendement catalogue.

Manuscript contents
(a)     f.1-132r
Original title: Glossa palatina super Decreta
Author: Laurentius, Hispanus, -1248
Incipit: Humanum genus
Explicit: hic ponitum
Language: Latin

Incomplete owing to loss of two quires from between f.109 and f.110. Fairly extensive annotation by a single 13th-14th century hand on f.65r-66v and f.92r-96v; minimal annotation otherwise - pointing hands on f.5r.

Cited: Kuttner, 79-92
(b)     f.132v & 133v
Modern title: Short pieces
Language: Latin

Short jottings in Documentary scripts by four different 13th - 14th century hands on originally blank endleaves, including: "Equore cum gelido zephirus fert et exennia kymbus" (with all the letters of the alphabet); "Dictus. Super illa uerba in iustam …" [three times by two different hands]; "Domine dominus noster quam admirabile est nomen tuum" (Psalm 8.2 – twice, by different hands, one on f.132v, the other on f.133v).


Microfilm
Microfilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham Cathedral Library.

Digitised material for Durham Cathedral Library MS C.III.8 - Laurentius Hispanus, Glossa palatina super Decreta
Digitised June 2018 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m9593tv23q.html
Bibliography

Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss.   OCLC citation, Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).

Kuttner, Stephan, Repertorium der Kanonistik (1140-1234) Prodromus corporis glossarum   OCLC citation (Vatican: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1937)

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