Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica
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General Information
Protogothic
Original Condition
Current Condition
Presence of humidity and red wax stains. The manuscript was probably trimmed to be used as binding. Parts of the printed 16th century volume are stuck to the parchment
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Rubrication in red ink, initials in red and blue ink
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Petrus Comestor
- Text Language Latin
- Title Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica
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Content Description
Passage from Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica paraphrasing portions of chapters VIII and IX of the Book of Judges, particularly referring to Abimelech and Gedeon
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- Glosses and Additions Written in pencil on fragment 1 side 2 is: “From the binding of MM5.17 Biblia Latina Lugd. 1546”. Looks like it could be James Maitland Anderson’s annotation. That would fit with saying the binding was removed from MM.5.17 as Bushnell introduced LCC and the Bib prefix after JMA’s time. JMA was Librarian 1881-1924 (and Keeper of Muniments until his death in 1927).
- Edition Historia scholastica (Petrus Comestor), J. P. Migne; https://www.mlat.uzh.ch/browser?path=11575&text=11575
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Remarks
Two older St Andrews classmarks are written in ink the margin of the verso:
- N1.16 United College cat. (1782)
- MM5.17 University Library cat. (1826)
Presence of a squiggle from James Moffatt in an oblique angle above a Latin inscription. The Latin seems to read:
minus . eglentire . et est genus herbe . p[ri]us molle et post conuertit[ur] [ ]pinam . sicut p[ri]us delectant p[ ] et post pungent[us]
History
Probably early thirteenth century, maybe France
Host Volume
Woodcuts throughout. Bound in limp vellum. The binding is 16th century, implying that the two sections were bound together very soon after the books were printed.