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JCOL/Q/A/5
Title
Petri Comestoris historia scholastica
Date(s)
- 1200-1400 (With flyleaves taken from a 10-11C missal.) (Creation)
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1 volume 13 x 9+ in., 152 ff.; in double columns of 50 lines. Binding of 18C vellum
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Provenance uncertain; probably in the college library by 1600.
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A well-known work by Petrus Comestor; M. R. James's no. 5. The main text has decorated initials in red and blue; it ends in the chapter "de dyonisio areopagtia". There are two flyleaves taken from a 10-11C missal, beginning with part of the gospel for the Decollation of St John the Baptist and ending with collects and lessons for the feast of the Assumption.
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Publication note
Probably identical with no. 5 in T. James's list of Jesus College mss. in his Ecloga Cantabrigiensis (1600), p. 137 - "Historia Egesippi, uti videtur".