Catalogue of Durham University Library Cosin MS V.v.18

Durham University Library Cosin MS V.v.18Bible
Held by: Durham University Library: Cosin Manuscripts

Manuscript codex copy of a small format Bible of the Paris type, written in Northern France in the mid 13th century. Given to George Davenport by George Barkas in 1665 and thence to Bishop Cosin's Library.

Physical description of manuscript

Support

Very thin parchment, flesh- and hair-sides not easily distinguishable), all edges cropped, with some loss of marginalia. Original holes in f.232, 241, 348, 403, 416; f.206 and 207 stained and partly torn away; f.185-95, 202-9, 338^v, 381-6 stained by liquid; tears in f.32, 107 and 305-6, repaired. Lower margins of f.18-21 largely cut away obliquely, with some loss of text. The Psalms have been heavily used.

Extent: ii,421,i f

Size: 132 mm x 88 mm

Foliation

Foliated 1-420, repeating 181 and 230.

Collation

1²⁴(wants 1-4 before f.2), 2²⁴ wants 10 after f.30 and 22-24 after f.41, 3²⁶, 4-6²⁴, 7²⁴ wants 15 after f.153, with f. 221-243²⁴ and f.328-352²⁶ wants 16 after f.342.

Layout

No evidence of pricking. Written space 91-92 x 62 mm or, item (2), 100 x 68 mm; ruled in brown. 2 columns; 49 or, item (2), 53-56 lines.

Script

Written in very small Gothic minuscule, proficiently, mid 13th century. Change of hand or pen on f.82^va. Many rubrics in a more cursive hand, overflowing the space provided. Item (4) in anglicana formata, 14th/15th century.

Decoration

Running titles. Naming books, except Psalms, across openings, in alternating red and blue lombardic capitals, with “Prologus” at the start of I Kings and Daniel, f.93^v-94^r and 279^r. Marginal chapter-numbers similar, with some guides surviving in the lower margin, e.g. xlvij and xlviij on f.253^rb, ij on 305^v, minutely written.

Text-capitals in item (1) filled with red. Initials: (i) to psalm-verses in item (1) and to each entry of item (2), 1-line, alternately red and blue; (ii) to chapters of item (1) and letter divisions and subdivisions of item (2), 2-line, alternately red and blue, with infilling and flourishing of the other colour; (iii) to prologues in item (1) and Prayer of Jeremiah, 3- or 4-line, red and blue with infilling and flourishing in both colours; (iv) to Ruth, III and IV Kings, 5-line, as (iii); (v) to books of item (1), except as (iv) above, to Psalms 38, 52, 68, 80 and 97, and to item (2), 5-line or more, in blue or pink, generally alternately, patterned with white, on grounds of pink or blue outlined in black and embellished with groups of 3 white dots, filled with blue, pink or grey, and decorated with animal-bodies and lion-heads in white and with stiff foliate forms in pink, blue, orange and mustard-yellow, i.e. in the “Channel style”; (vi) the opening of Genesis and other books missing.

Corrections and annotation

Corrections entered in margins,13th century. Rubrics adding chapter divisions, e.g. f.103^r, 117^r. Marginal verbal corrections by early and other (14th/15th century) hands and psalm arabic numeration added in similar ink to that of neat marginal instructions for reading or copying 13th/14th century: “transi”, “vsque huc”, f.57^v, 58^r, 79^r, 80^r-^v, 81^r, 143^r, 147^r, 152^r, 167^v, 170^r, 347^r, and other notes, e.g. 387^r. Passages marked in margins by 3 dots and a tail. Note on “scutum fidei”, f.358^v, anglicana, start of 15th century, and others in grey ink, e.g. f.8^v.

Binding

Brown grained morocco Tuckett binding, mid 19th century (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century)

Manuscript history

Creation

Written in northern France, mid 13th century.

Provenance

Written in northern France, to judge by the inclusion of Psalms and the style of flourishing (especially terminals), and by the principal initials, for which cf. Branner, Amiens atelier, pl. X, etc. Item (4) added in a 14th/15th century English hand. “<Caucio magistri F... exposita ciste sancte> trinitatis Ao et die quibus supra et est vna biblia cuius 2^m fo rode carne mea et v[alet ?] xxvjs viijd', f. 419v, a 15th century caution-note referring to a chest at Cambridge, when the book was already defective at the beginning (since it gives the present first words as secundo folio). Scrawled in the margins by an end of 16th century hand: (a) f.295^r Ave Maria in English; (b) f.392^r “All prayse and dew renowne o lord grant thy holye Name and not to vs most wretched wygh[ts] do thou impart the same”; “Robert”, f.266^r upside down, and a smeared note, f.263^r, in the same (?) hand, of which (a) suggests Roman Catholic ownership and IHS upside-down on f.113^v, 145^r (with Jesuit cross). “William Wilkingsonn his booke”, f.420^r, 16th/17th century. “Geo. Davenport | Ex dono Amicissimi viri | Geo. Barkas Generosi. | 1665.” George Barkas was a Durham attorney and clerk to the Mayor, died 1690. Rud's ex-libris with shelf and volume number also on f.i^r.

Manuscript contents

(1) f.2^r-392^r

Modern title: Bible

Incipit: ... ro de carne mea. Hec uocabitur uirago; quoniam de uiro sumpta est ...

Explicit: ... Gratia domini nostri Iesu Christi cum omnibus nobis amen.

Language: Latin

Bible, in the usual order, lacking Nehemiah, Judith, Esther, Job, Hosea - Haggai, and parts of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, II Chronicles, I and II/III Ezra, Tobit, Psalms, Ecclesiasticus, Isaiah, Daniel, and John.

Genesis starting imperfectly at 2:23 f.2^r, Exodus f.21^r, Leviticus f.35^v, Numbers f.43^v, Deuteronomy f.58^v, Joshua f.73^r, Judges f.82^v, Ruth f.92^v, I Kings f.94^v, II Kings f.108^r, III Kings f.118^v, IV Kings f.131^r, I Chronicles f.143^r, II Chronicles starting imperfectly at 3:5 f.154^r and followed without a break by Prayer of Manasses f.166^r, I Ezra f.167^r breaking off at 4:9, II/III Ezra starting imperfectly at 5:72 f.168^r, Tobit f.170^v breaking off at 2:9, Psalms starting imperfectly at 31:7 f.171^r, Proverbs f.188^r, Ecclesiastes f.196^r, Song of Songs f.198^v, Wisdom f.200^r, Ecclesiasticus f.206^r breaking off at 51:1, Isaiah starting imperfectly at 1:29 f.221^r, Jeremiah f.237^r, Lamentations f.256^v, Prayer of Jeremiah f.258^r, Baruch f.258^r, Ezekiel f.260^v, Daniel f.279^v breaking off at 4:24, Zechariah f.282^r, Malachi f.285^r, I Maccabees f.286^r, II Maccabees f.297^v, Matthew f.305^r, Mark f.316^r, Luke f.323^v, John f.335^v, Romans f.343^v, I Corinthians f.348^r, II Corinthians f.352^v, Galatians f.355^v, Ephesians f.357^r, Philippians f.359^r, Colossians f.360^r, I Thessalonians f.361^r, II Thessalonians f.362^r, I Timothy f.362^v, II Timothy f.364^r, Titus f.365^r, Philemon f.365^v, Hebrews f.365^v, Acts f.369^v, James f.381^r, I Peter f.382^r, II Peter f.383^v, I John f.384^r, II John f.385^v, III John f.385^v, Jude f.385^v, Revelation f.386^v.

Ruth I.7 has “revertendi posita”. as the Paris text. Jeremiah ends with the introductory sentence of Lamentations, f.265^v. The rubrics to a few books include Hebrew names, e.g. “Incipit malachim id est liber regum tercius”, “Incipit dabreiamin id est verba dierum que est paralipomenon liber primus” f.118^v, 143^r. There are long rubrics to Baruch's sermon, and Jeremiah's letter, f.259^r and 260^r. The prologues are those of the common set (MMBL i, 96-97): opening of Genesis missing, Stegmüller nos 311 (f.72^v), 323 (f.94^v), 328 (f.143^r), 327... beginning with address “Eusebius. ieronimus ... salutem. Quoniam grecorum ...” and all after first 12 lines gone (f.153^v), 330 (f.166^v), 332 beginning with address (f.170^v), 457 (f.187^v), 462 (f.196^r), 468 (f.200^r), Eccli. prologue treated as separate (f.206^r), 487 (f.236^v), 491 (f.258^r), 492 ending “phagolidoli. hoc est aput nos; manducans senecias” (f.260^v), 494 (f.279^r), ...539 (f.282^r), 543 (f.284^v), 547 (f.285^v) 553 with addresses & 551 (f.286^r), 590 & 589 (f.305^r), 607 (f.316^r), Luke 1:1-4 & 620 (f.323^r), 624 (f.335^v), 677 (f.343^v), 685 (f.348^r), 699 (f.352^v), 707 (f.355^v), 715 (f.357^r), 728 (f.359^r), 736 (f.360^r), 747 beginning as 749 (f.361^r), 752 (f.362^r), 765 (f.362^v), 772 (f.364^r), 780 (f.364^v), 783 (f.365^v), 793 (f.365^v), 640 beginning “Lucas antiocensis nacione syrus ...” (f.369^r), 809 (f.381^r), 839 (f.386^r).

(2) f.392^v-419^v

Original title: Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum

Incipit: Aaz: apprehendens uel apprehensio. az; testificans uel testimonium. Adhar; deprecacio. Aalma; uirgo ...

Explicit: ... Zusim consiliantes eos uel consiliatores eorum.

Language: Latin

Lacking, between f.398 and 399, last [61] entries under A and all entries under B except last three, i.e. amounting to 3 folios; between f.403 and 404, end of F [140 entries] and [26 entries] beginning of G, amounting to 1 folio; between f.411 and 412, [29 entries] of M, all N and [138 entries] of O, amounting to 2 folios.

Citation: Stegmüller 7709

(3) f.419^v

Date: Added, later 13th century

Incipit: 2 feria canticum Confitebor tibi domine. ysa 12.

Explicit: 4 Exultauit cor meum .1.R.2.

Language: Latin

Note of OT canticles at Lauds, feria 2-6 (disordered) and Saturday. All lined through in red.

Breviarum, ii,87,110,166,147,187,126

(4) f.420^r-420^v

Date: Added, 14th/15th century

Incipit: Ad primam missam. Leccio. Populus gencium. Ysaie .9. ...

Explicit: ... Euangelium. Cum intrasset Iesus. Math. 21.

Language: Latin

List of lections, epistles and gospels at Mass, Christmas - Lent I feria iii.

Edited: Missale, p.51

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 University Library.

Bibliography

Branner, R., Manuscript painting in Paris during the reign of Saint Louis , (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977)

Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesiae Sarum , ed. F. Proctor & C. Wordsworth, (Cambridge: CUP 1879-1886)

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. , Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).

Ker, N. R., Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, I. London , (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969)

Missale ad usum insignis et praeclarae ecclesiae Sarum (Burntisland: E Prelo de Pitsligo; London, C.J. Stewart , 1861-7)

Stegmüller, Friedrich, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi , (Madrid: 1950-1980)

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