ff.ii + 378 + ii. Smooth parchment. 191 x 125mm; text size 125 x 78mm; 2 columns (3 cols. in art. 3). 52-56 lines; bound in 14th century binding lettered on spine: ‘Gassa/Scanz/N’.
Collation: 1-19(12), 20-21(14), 22(10), 23-29(12), 30(6), 31 three (ff.357-59), 32(12), 33(8) wants 8, blank. Three very small hands, changing at ff.181, 279: the writing by the first two scribes has tended to fade on flesh sides a reduced facsimile of ff.123 verso-124 in "The Library", 5th Series, xvi (1961), opp. p.16. Initial: (i) in colour on coloured grounds decorated in colours, sometimes elaborately, e.g. ff.87, 295; (ii) to prologues, either as (i), but smaller, or 4-line in blue and red with ornament of both colours; (iii) to chapters, (but cf. (iv) below), about 3 lines high, placed outside the written space, red or blue with ornament of the other colour; (iv) to psalm verses and in art. 3, and on ff.181-278 to show where a new chapter begins, 1-line, red or blue. Secundo folio ‘res mea’.
1. ff.1-356. The books of the Bible as usual and in the usual order (cf. Lambeth Palace MS 1364), except that 3 Ezra follows Psalms and Colossians follows Thessalonians. The Prayer of Manasses is not written continuously with 2 Chronicles. Proverbs and Matthew begin on new quires (ff.181, 279): the preceding quires have not been completely filled. On ff.181-278 a new chapter does not begin on a new line. f.356 verso is blank.
The prologues are 60 of the common set of 64 and 13 others, shown here by *: Stegmüller, nos. 284, 285, 311, 323, 328, 332, 335, 341 + 343, 344, 357 (added), 457, 482, 487, 491, 492, 494, 500, 501*, 506*, 507, 511, 510, 515, 512, 513, 519 + 517, 516*, 524, 521, 522*, 526, 525*, 528 (...monstratur), 531, 530*, 529*, 524, 532*, 538, 535*, 539, 540*, 543, 544*, 547, 553, 551, 589, 590, 620, 624, 670*, 674*, 677 (added in the margin), and 13 more as usual to 793 (765...ab urbe roma), 640, 809, 839, 607. The prologues to Matthew and Mark, 589 and 607, appear to be afterthoughts in a main hand in the blank spaces on ff.278 verso and 356, respectively.
2. Mnemonic verses:
(a) ff.357-58, described at the end: ‘Isti uersus continent ystoriam iiij(or) euangeliorum per ordinem secundum quod ad litteram ipse cristus predicauit et uias et facta et annos secundum quod ipsos uersus potes plenary intelligere.’ The begin here imperfectly ‘Hine redit in chana galilee. postulat illic’ and end ‘Discipulis et sic clauditur iste liber’ after which six lines, ‘Ad deserta. Caphar...post effrem [...]’, list 16 ‘viae’; (b) ff.358-59 verso A generat. B magos uocat...
(b) Walther, no. 37. A summary of the Gospels in about one line of verse for each chapter.
3. ff.360-78 Aaz apprehendens...consiliatores eorum.
The usual dictionary of Hebrew names. f.378 verso was left blank.
KER: BFBS Lat 4.