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Stowe MS 49
- Record Id:
- 040-001952827
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x000247
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 49
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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LEGENDA AUREA, by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa [1292-1298]. The prologue, "Universum tempus præsentis vitæ," etc., is headed "Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum quas compilavit frater Jacobus, nacione Januensis, de ordine fratrum prædicatorum," and is followed by a table of contents. The work ends with the legend "de dedicatione Ecclesiæ," and with the words (slightly different from the usual text), "quod ipse nobis præstare dignetur ut ipse cuius iste liber est et ipsius procurator ipsiusque scriptor et omnis in ipsum cernens et legens aut aliquod verbum quod in eo continetur devote intelligens vitam perducat sempiternam et leticiam indeficientem; Qui vivit et regnat cum Deo Patre in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen." As in other early copies (e.g. Add. 11,882), the lives of SS. Sophia, Fabian, Apollonia and Boniface are absent; while the titles of two lives ("de sanctis Felicissimo et Agapeto " and "de sancto Tyburtio") are inserted in the table of contents, but have nothing corresponding in the text. The name of the scribe is given in the following lines at the end : —"Qui non sum canus scripsi qui dicor Alanus, Sed niger in toto per corpus dente remoto. Exoro Christum, librum qui cernit in istum, Ne quin invadat fine repente cadat." Vellum; ff. 245. Early XIVth cent. In double columns of 53 lines. With initials in red, blue, and green; and grotesque drawings in pen and ink in the margins of several of the pages. An inscription at the bottom of f. 2 states that the book was presented to the Chapel of St. Stephen, Westminster, by Robert de Elmham, canon of the same, who died there 8 March, 1365[6]. Robert de Elmham received a canonry of St. Stephen's in 1358 (Newcourt, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum, vol. i. 745). On the last leaf is a memorandum by Sir Roger Twysden, that he bought the volume from Stephen Potts, a bookseller of Aldersgate Street, London, about 1626. Small Folio.
Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa: Legenda Aurea: early 14th cent.
Alanus: Wrote: in early 14th cent.
includes:
- f. 245 Sir Roger Twysden, Antiquary (ob. 1672): Autograph notes: 17th cent.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952808
040-001952827 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 31-53 : CLASS III.THEOLOGY, WITH LIVES OF SAINTS.
Stowe MS 49 : LEGENDA AUREA, by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa [1292-1298]. The prologue, "Universum tempus præsentis vitæ,"… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0003]/036-001952808[0019]/040-001952827
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1340
- Date Range:
- Early 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Sir Roger Twysden, Antiquary (ob. 1672): Owned.
Stephen Potts, of Aldersgate Street, London, Bookseller: Owned: circ. 1626.
London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: St. Stephen's Chapel owned: circ. 1365.
Robert de Elmham, Canon of St. Stephen's, Westminster: Owned: ante 1365.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alanus, of Stowe MS 49
Elmham, Robert, Canon of St. Stephen's, Westminster
Jacobus de Voragine, chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, c 1230-1298
Potts, Stephen, of Aldersgate Street, London, Bookseller
Twysden, Roger, Antiquary, d 1672 - Places:
- London, United Kingdom
Westminster, England