| Ref No | MS 214 |
| Alt Ref No | C. 4. 1 |
| Title | Augustinus, Confessiones etc.; Ps-Ambrose, Libellus de Dignitate Sacerdotali; Augustine, Confessions; Bede, Hist. Eccles. I. |
| Description | I. At the head of f.1 is 'D. 11. Sti Augustini - Confessiones', in the usual 17th-cent. Lincoln hand.
1. Ps-Ambrose, Libellus de Dignitate Sacerdotali. Ff.1v-7v. F.8rv blank. 'Sermo sancti Ambrosii de obseruantia episcoporum. Si quis frater oraculum Domini reminiscatur . . . que te sanctis dare promisisti amen.' PL 17. 567-580. On f.7v cues for prayers are added in a rough contemporary hand: 'Pro fratribus dirigendis in uia Saluoᶸs face seruoᶸs tuoᶸs. Mitti eisi. Beati qui ambulant. Domine exaudi or. Dominus nobis est. oremus. or. [A]desto Domine supplicationibus nostris, et uiam famulorium tuorium in salutis tue prosperitate dispone ut inter omnes uie et uite huius uarietates tuo semper protegantur auxilio'. At the head of f.2 is 'D 11' in Garvey's hand.
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2. Augustine, Confessions, preceded by the relevant passage from the Retractationes. Ff.9-160v. 'Incipit prologus libri confessionum sancti Agustini Aurelii episcopi. Confessionum mearum libri . . . Hoc opus sic incipit magnus es Domine (II. vi; PL 32. 632). In hoc corpore continentur Aurelii Agustini Confessionum libri numero xiii. Magnus es Domine . . . sic inuenietur, sic aperietur amen'. Book-numbers were pencilled as running heads in the 14th cent. PL 32. 659-868. Römer II. ii. 139.
3. Bede, Hist. Eccles. I. xxiii, slightly adapted. Ff.160v-161v. 'Beda in historia Anglorum. Preterea idem papa Gregorius Augustino episcopo . . . eiusdem Domini anno xviii. indictione iiij'.
4. 'Hec sunt nomina et sententie .vii. sapientum. Biais perigeneus ait Quenam summa boni? . . .’ Ff.161v-162. Those named are 'Biais perigeneus', ‘Pitagus mitilenus', 'Cleobulus indius', 'Penander chorinthius', 'Solon atheniensis', 'Clion lacedemonius', 'Ancharis scita'. The note resembles that in Lambert of St Omer, Liber Floridus : Ghent, Univ. Libr. MS 92, f.75v (facs. ed. [Ghent, 1968], p.152).
5. '[C]oegit me Alexander Lincolniensis . . . ; Sedente itaque Wortegimo . . . superstabit anelabit in oculos eius et faciem'. Ff.162-166, glossed on ff.162v- 63. Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae, sects. 110-116 (42); ed. Wright (see MS 98 art.3), pp.73-80, the gloss referring to events elsewhere in the work. The extract is often found separately (cf. MS 98 art.16), and here ends imperfectly at the same point as do at least nine other copies: C.D. Eckhardt in Manuscripta, 26 (1982), pp.171, 173. At the head of f.166v, in a rough 13th-cent. cursive hand, 'Jon de Lene lay onerd bane / at pelagis le gard' þe deua yin / oquelle point e per grafe'. |
| Author | Ps-Ambrose |
| Augustine |
| Bede |
| Date | 12th century |
| Physical Description | Binding: Twelfth-century white leather back and sides pasted over early 20th-cent. fawn calf on bevelled wooden boards. The old title, in large, elegant capitals, down the spine (partly obscured by labels): 'AUGUSTINUS DE CONFESSIONE'. A paper leaf at each end. Lincoln Cathedral bookplate inside the front cover. Paper labels on the spine: M.S. AUGUSTINI CONFESSIONES / 214 / C 4. 1.
Construction: 166 parchment leaves, the upper and outer edges trimmed. Two volumes bound together at an indeterminate date. 265 x 170 (c. 190 x 110) mm. I ruled partly in pencil, partly blind, in c.30 long lines. II blind-ruled in 24-30 long lines.
Hands: (1) Art.1; (2) Art.2; (3) Art.3 to f.161v line 1; (4) f.161v lines 1-3 and all of Art.4; (5) Art.5 to f.163v line 13; (6) ff.163v line 14 166. These are all English, 1 and 2, of the early 12th cent, bad hands varying in size and formality, 3-6 somewhat later and more proficient.
Decoration: Sparse; arts.1 and 5 open with a red initial, art. 2 with a C outlined in ink of text, with foliage, partly filled in red and green. Books open with plain red initials, apart from one violet one; red-touched initials early on, and rubrication. Art.4 has green-touched initials. |
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| Repository | Lincoln Cathedral Library |
| Language | Latin |
| Collation | 1⁸ / 2¹², 3-20⁸, 21². The quires numbered, in roman numerals, at the foot of the last verso, beginning with i at quire 2. |
| Notes | Sec. fol. prepositam. History: Wren Cat. D. 11; Garvey D 5. 7; Apthorp, p.277; Woolley, p.154. |