Royal MS 3 A XI

PETRUS COMESTOR, Historia Scholastica, with the title ' Historia Veteris et Noui Testamenti a Magistro Petro Manducatore ad litteram edita'(f. 3). The 'prologus epistolaris' (cf 2 C. 1) is omitted. Beg. 'Imperatoric maiestatis est in palatio tres habere mansiones'. Ends imperfectly, near the conclusion of the Gospel narrative, in ch. cxciv, 'quia uidisti, Tho[mas]'. Vellum; ff 161. 11 1/4 in.x 7 1/2 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'sunt congregate'. There is a marked change of hand at f. 72, b. A few marginal notes have been added throughout. The fly-leaves (ff. i, 2, 159-161) contain miscellaneous 14th cent. notes, including some on Mahomet and the Saracens; also (f. 2) the conclusion of a narrative of the martyrdom of S. James the Greater, in a large hand of the 13th cent. A prayer in English (16th cent.) is written on the margin Of f. 140, and a note in French (14th cent.) on f. 159 b. On f. 1 is a note of the payment of two shillings for rent on the feast of S. Maur [15 jan.], 1302. The name of James Jackson (16th cent.) is in the margin of f. 100 b. Belonged to the Friars Minor of Bridgnorth, co. Salop (' Historie scolastice date communitati Minorum Brugg' de dono Magistri J. de Middelton', f. 2b), and bears their press-mark, : M : 23 :, subsequently altered to A : 18 (f. 2 b). Purchased in 1663 by John Theyer, and has his name and monogram (f. 159 b). Theyer sale-cat. no. 121; CMA. 6429.