Add MS 38007

"VITA beati Hugonis Lincolniensis episcopi et Carthusiensis monachi": the Magna Vita of St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln (1186- 1200), by the monk Adam, his chaplain, afterwards Abbot of Eynsham (Bibl. Hag. Lat. no. 4018). Printed by Dimock (Magna Vita S. Hugonis, Rolls Series, 1864) from the imperfect 13th cent. MS. at Oxford (Digby 165), completed from the 15th cent. fragment at Paris, Bibl. Nat. lat. 5575. Some other MSS. are mentioned by Thurston, Life of S. Hugh, 1898, p. xv. Preface beg. "Silencium mihi, patres dilectissimi"; text, "Illustris sobolis clarissimi genitores." Colophon, "Explicit vita beati Hugonis Carthusiensis monachi et Lincolniensis episcopi. Ecce dei confessor Hugo qui semper ablhorrens indulgere sibi nunc obtinet omne quod optat." After this follow two appendices, viz.:-(a) "De canonisacione beati Hugonis et quibusdam miraculis post eius sepulturam per eum diuiiiitus ostensis et factis" (Bibl. Hag. Lat. nos. 4029, 4028, printed by the Bollandists in Catal. Codd. Hagiographicorum Bibl. Reg. Bruxell. i. pp. 189-191) and several other miracles. Beg. "Sanctum Hugonem episc. Line. monachum"; ends "obtinere meruerunt. Et sic finis horum miraculorum. Deo gracias." Colophon, "Anno salutis millesimo quingentesimo vndecimo scriptum velociter per quemdam pauperem monachium Carthusiensem domus Sancte Barbare in Colonia, cuius anma cum omnibus fidelibus defunctis requiescat in pace perhetua. Amen"; with note, "Originale exemplar de quo scriptum presens ad lucem deductum fuit nobis communicatum a fratibus nostris de Wesalia Carthusiensibus ad tempus." f. 132b;-(b) "De translatione sancti Hugonis Lincolniensis" (Bibl. Hag. Lat. no. 4024, printed from an imperfect MS. by the Bollandists l.c.) Beg. "Congruum est et decens ut sanctos et electos"; ends "concedat qui est indeficiens lux vera Christus Iesus dominus noster.. Amen." f. 135. On the inside of the wooden boards of the binding is a set-off from a fragment of MS. no longer in the volume, viz. four leaves of a 12th cent. Psalter (Gallican), containing Ps. xliii. 13-26, liv. 7-21 and lxxvii. 45-57. Vellum; ff. i. + 138. 9 ½ in. x 7 in. A.D. 1511. Gatherings of 8 leaves (last ²). Sec. fol. "Hugonis mei." Contemporary binding of wooden boards, covered with light brown leather. A panel formed by intersecting four-line fillets is divided by three-line fillets into seven lozenges filled from two stamps, representing respectively St. Barbara (with palm-branch and turret), and St. Bruno (with olive-branch and book, between ---------; mitre lying beneath). The remaining spaces are filled, three from a smaller 1ozenge-stamp of a lion, seven from a round stamp of a double rose. Brass clasps, one broken. Belonged to the Monastery of St. Barbara at Cologne; afterwards to Leander Van Ess (see 38003), being no. 319 in his library; Phillipps MS. 703 (sale-cat. 1910, lot 446).

Saint Hugh,; Bishop of Lincoln: Magna Vita, by Adam, his chaplain, and canonisatio, etc.: 1511.

Bindings GERMAN: Wooden boards covered with leather (stamps SS. Bruno and Barbara, etc.), Cologne: 1511.

Bible LATIN: Set-off from a psalterfragment: 12th cent.

Saint Bruno: Figure of on stamped leather: 1511.

Saint Barbara: Figure of, stamped on leather: 1511.

Adam, Abbot of Eynsham: Magna Vita S. Hugonis: 1511.