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Royal MS 11 A XIII

Record Id:

040-002106563

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000173

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 11 A XIII

Title:

John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae

Scope & Content:

ff. i, 241 (flyleaves): Thomas Aquinas, Super Euangelium Iohannis reportatio, from a late 14th-century copy.

ff. 1r–237r: John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae.

ff. 237r–240v: Sermon on Song of Songs 2:5, Amore langueo, beginning ‘Reverendi magistri patres atque domini, ista verba iam dicta’.

Decoration:

Opens with a 3-line Lombardic initial in red; following sections are divided with 2-line initials in the same style.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-002106563

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 11 A XIII : John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae

Hierarchy:

032-002105724[0794]/040-002106563

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment/paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment (outer and innermost leaves of each quire, and some others) and paper.

Dimensions: 220 × 150 mm (written area 170 × 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 241 (+ 2 paper flyleaves added to the beginning and 3 to the end).

Collation: i¹²⁺¹ (ff. i, 1–12; 1st added), ii¹⁴ (ff. 13–26), iii^12–1 (ff. 27–37; 9th cancelled), iv–vi¹² (ff. 38–73), vii^14–1 (ff. 74–86; 9th cancelled), viii–xii¹² (ff. 87–146), xiii^12–1 (ff. 147–157; 7th cancelled), xiv–xix¹² (ff. 158–229), xx^14–1+1 (ff. 230–243; 2nd cancelled, 15th added). Catchwords. Leaves of individual quires numbered.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Library in-house, rebound 1983.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Tattershall College, Lincolnsire. Cf. Leland's notes in Royal Appendix 69.

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Old Royal pressmark ‘no. 277’ (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 28); cat. of 1661, f. 28; cat. of 1666, f. 17 b; CMA. 8239.

Publications:

Siegfried Wenzel, ‘John Lathbury’s Commentary on Lamentations and the Alphabetum Morale’, Journal of Theological Studies (2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flx054.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

Previous description, from the Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections:

DISTINCTIONES Iohannis Lathbury de ordine fratrum minorum', alphabetically arranged, Abstinendum- Ypocrita. The author is said to have been a monk of Reading and doctor of Oxford, and was present at a provincial chapter in 1343 (see Dict. Nal. Biogr.). Other copies are in Harley MS. 4665 and at Peterhouse, Cambridge (M. R. James, Cat no. 91). Beg. 'Abstinendum est a deliciis'. At the end (f. 237) is added, in the same hand, a sermon on Cant. ii. 5, Amore langueo, beg. 'Reuerendi magistri patres atque domini, ista uerba iam dicta', apparently addressed to an English university.

The vellum fly-leaves (ff. i, 241) are from a 15th cent MS. of a commentary on S. John's Gospel (cap. v). Vellum (outer and innermost leaves of each quire, and some others) and paper; ff. i + 241. Quarto. 81/2 in. x 6 in. XV cent. Gatherings, i¹², ii¹⁴, iii¹¹, iv-vi¹², vii¹³, viii-xii¹², xiii¹¹, xiv-xx¹², with catchwords. Sec. fol. 'modos uiuendi'. Belonged to Tattershall College, co. Linc. (cf. Leland's notes in Roy. App. 69). Old Royal press-mark ‘no. 277’ (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 28); cat. of 1661, f. 28; cat. of 1666, f. 17 b; CMA. 8239.