Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali, with glosses in Latin and Old High German; south-west Germany or Switzerland (?Lake Constance area), 11th century

Title

Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali, with glosses in Latin and Old High German; south-west Germany or Switzerland (?Lake Constance area), 11th century

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 57

Place of origin

Germany, south west, or Switzerland, perhaps area of Lake Constance

Date

11th century

Language

Old High German (ca. 750-1050)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (paper) + i (parchment) + 96 + i (parchment) + i (paper)

Hands

Caroline minuscule by two hands, (a) fols. 1v-79v, 88r-95r, with frequent ligatures (us, nt, rt, ns; a and i sometimes in ligature below the line), and with a form of -rum abbreviation similar to that regarded by Hartmut Hoffmann as characteristic of Reichenau (Buchkunst und Königtum I.306) (b) fols. 80r-87v (quire 11).

Rubrics in rustic capitals with some uncial forms.

Decoration

Foliate initials in red at the beginning of each book, fols. 2r, 34r. R. W. Hunt compared the initials in MS. Laud Misc. 274.

Minor initials usually of three lines in plain red.

Binding

Sewn on four bands (replacing earlier sewing using five stations); 16th century or 17th century (?), Italian (?) brown calf over pasteboards, blind-ruled and and blind-stamped with fleur-de-lis and leafwork motifs, and indistinct centrepieces, the Crucifixion on the front and perhaps the Virgin and Child or St Christopher on the back. The spine with gilt label 'S. Gregor. Papae Lib. Regul. Pastoral.' and 'Cod. Mem. 1150' (a date, rather than a shelfmark; cf. fol. 1r). Endleaves of 18th-century Venetian paper with three moons watermark.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Fol. 1r: pentrials, one with the year 1150.

Erased inscriptions, text not recoverable, fols. 1v, 53v.

Probably in Italy by the 15th century: inscription, mostly excised, in Italian script, fol. 1v: '... monasterii sanctę a castelionibus loco recepte eleam discretam us fuit annotatus'

Unidentified house of regular canons, perhaps in Treviso: fol. 1r, partly erased ex libris inscription (possibly itself written over an earlier inscription): 'Iste liber est canonicorum regularium sancte Marie r de tar'. Perhaps the regular canons of S. Maria de Pichelermi and the Forty Martyrs, Treviso, as MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 46 or MS. Canon. Misc. 456, or Santa Maria Maggiore, Treviso.

Fol. 1r: erased ex libris inscription, 'Iste liber est canonicorum tre'.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805; acquisition uncertain, not from Soranzo,

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 57

Date

c. 1100

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume