Egerton MS 3273

THEOLOGICAL TREATISES, etc., in Latin. A composite volume, bound together in the 15th cent. (see below), as follows:-

(1) Part of a commentary on St Luke's gospel, lacking the beginning: beg. 'venit ad eas et suggerit et lingit mammas earum', ends 'fuit ligatus ad columpnam'. ff. 1-2.

(2) Commentary on St Matthew's gospel, by Petrus de Palma (Balma, Beaume), Master General of the Dominican Order (d. 1343), beg. 'Matheus ex Iudea. Presens prologus dividitur in tres partes. In prima describit Ieronimus auctorem'; see F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, iv, 1954, no. 6736, and J. Quétif and J. Echard, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum, i, 1719, p. 615. ff. 2-28b.

(3) Commentary on St Luke's gospel by Petrus de Palma, beg. 'Lucas syrus nacione. Huic ewangelio premittitur duplex prologus'; Stegmüller, iv, no. 6739, 1; Quétif and Echard, i, p. 615. ff. 29-33.

(4) Commentary on St John's gospel by Jacobus de Lausanne (Losanna, Osanna), Prior Provincial of the French Dominican province (d. 1322), beg. 'Hic est Iohannes ewangelista etc. Iohannes interpretatur in quo gratia. Habuit enim triplicem gratiam'; Stegmüller, iii, 1951, no. 3941, Quétif and Echard, i, p. 548. ff. 34-46b.

(5) St Matthew's gospel in St Jerome's version, with an interlinear gloss and the marginal Glossa Ordinaria (Migne, Patr. Lat., cxiv, cols. 63-178), with additions. ff. 48-121.

(6) Genealogy of Christ. Late 12th-early 13th cent. f. 121b.

(7) Commentary on St Matthew's gospel, beg. 'Cum multi scripsisse legantur evangelia soli quattuor evangeliste', ends 'gratia super gratiam et intellectus super intellectum'; cf. Monte Cassino MS. 238 (Bibliotheca Casinensis, iv, 1880, p. 281) and Bruges, Bibliothèque Publique, MSS. 56, 57 (A. de Poorter, Catalogue des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Publique de la Ville de Bruges, ii, 1934, pp. 75-76). ff. 122-144b.

(8) Instructions and mnemonic verses for calculating the lunar cycle, concurrents and paschal term, with a table. The mnemonics include the verses beg. 'None aprilis norunt quinos' printed in K. Strecker, Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini, iv, fasc. ii, 1923, p. 670, and also among the doubtful works of Bede, Migne, Patr. Lat., xc, col. 802. ff. 145-145b.

(9) Treatise 'De compositione' on canonical penalties, beg. 'Compositio proprie vocatur quelibet satisfactio quam reus componit quisque pro quolibit malefacto', ends 'cognationis terminari dicuntur que sexta etate mundi status destruetur'. ff. 146-161b.

(10) The Responsiones of Pope Gregory I to St Augustine of Canterbury (P. Ewald and L. Hartmann, Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Gregorii I Papae Registrum Epistolarum, ii, 1899, pp. 331-343): the text without the preface 'Per dilectissimos' and divided into Interrogationes and Responsiones as in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (Venerabnis Baedae Opera Historica, ed. C. Plummer, 1896, i, pp. 48-62); ends as in Bede, 'Hucusque responsiones beati pape Gregorii ad consulta reverentissimi antistitis Augustini'. For a discussion of the texts, principal MSS. and authenticity of the Responsiones, see M. Deanesly and P. Grosjean, 'The Canterbury Edition of the Answers of Pope Gregory I to St Augustine', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, X, 1959, pp. 1-49, and P. Meyvaert, 'Les "Responsiones" de S. Grégoire le Grand à S. Augustin de Cantorbéry', Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, liv, 1959, pp. 879-894. ff. 161b-168. Vellum; ff. viii + 168. 230 mm. x 165 mm. Artt. 1-4, XIV cent. (artt. 1 and 2, written in the same hand); artt. 5-7, late XII-early XIII cent.; art. 7, XIV cent.; artt. 8-10, ff. 145-168, XII cent. (artt. 9 and 1O, ff. 146-168, written in the same hand). A modern pencil foliation, struck through, 1-165. Written in double columns, except artt. 5,6, 9 and 1O (ff. 48-121b, 146-168). Decorated initials at ff. 49, 50b. Gatherings, i-ii¹², iii¹⁴ (wants 4, 1O-14), iv¹², v², vi-xiv⁸ xv², xvi-xvii⁸ xviii¹⁰ (wants 9, 10), xix-xx⁸, xxi⁸ (wants 1, 7, 8). Catchwords at ff. 12b, 25b, 45b. End leaves (ff. iv, vii) and stubs (ff. 13, 164, 166, v, vi) from a late 8thcent. MS. written in minuscule in South Germany, probably at Freising, of parts of Sermons xciv and xc of St Leo the Great, corresponding to Migne, Patr. Lat., liv, cols. 460 A-B, 447 A-448 D: other parts of the same MS. are Add. MSS. 183O1, f. 1; 18304, ff. 2, 3, 100, 101; 18322, f. 2; 18344, f. 2; 18347, f. 2; 18349, f. 2; 18350, f. 150; Basle, Universitätsbibliothek, Fragm. I. 7; Donaueschingen, Fragm. B. III. 17; see E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, ii, 1935, no. 168. The binding is 15th cent., calf on boards with brass studs, stamped with a broad diamond pattern and devices of flowers, etc. The MS. belonged, as did probably all the MSS. in which the foregoing minuscule leaves are found, to the abbey of St Georgenberg (transferred to Fiecht in 1706), diocese of Brixen, Tirol, for a history of which see P. Pockstaller, Chronik der Benediktiner Abtei St Georgenberg, nun Fiecht in Tirol, Innsbruck, 1874. At f. 1 is an erased late 17th-cent inscription of ownership, 'Monasterii Montis S. Georgii in Valle Oeni'. There is a set-off of the abbey press-mark, 'III. 108', at f. ivb, and another press-mark, B VII', in red gothic letters on a label on the front cover (f. i). On the front cover and f. 1 is written a 19th-cent inscription 'Barnheim', which does not, however, occur in any of the 43 St Georgenberg MSS. bought by the British Museum from the Berlin bookseller Asher in 1850 (see Cat. of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1848-1853, pp. 82-106 passim), many of which have bindings similar to that of the present MS. and red gothic pressmarks (cf., e.g., Add. MS. 18349). A cutting from a 19th-cent. German salecatalogue listing the contents of the MS. is pasted on the inside front cover (f. iii). Bought by Sir Henry Wellcome in London in 1904. Later belonged to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, inventory no. 14418. From the Farnborough Fund.