Posted:
07 Feb 2018
Haenel 33. C. M. A. 2178. 5.
Vellum, 71/4 x 43/4, ff. 179 + 1, 22 lines to a page.
Cent. xiv early, in a good large English hand. 2 fo. qualiter egressi.
Chain-mark (?) at middle top of flyleaf.
Red and blue initials with good flourished ornament.
Collation:
1 flyleaf, 112-1512 (wants 9)
Contents:
Compendium capitulorum Bibliae.
Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f. 1
De creacione celi et terre.
De die primo in quo facta est lux.
Contains Gen.—Ruth, 1-4 Kings, 1, 2 Chron., Esdr., Neem., Judith, Hester,
Tobias, 1, 2 Macc., Prov.—Ecclus., Job.
Ends f. 176 : mortuus est senex et plenus dierum.
Expl. capitual libri Job.
In the same hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Dulcis fuit glareis cochiti
Cochitus luctus infirmancium dicitur
Glaree lapilli fluminum sunt etc.
followed by an explanation of
Et post se omnem hominem trahit.
There are some pencil notes on the two blank leaves at end, and elsewhere.
© N.J.R. James
