Beinecke MS 111                                                         Italy, s. XIV/XV, XV
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea, etc.

     I. 1. ff. 1r-2v    [Prologue, followed by table of contents:] Uniuersum
     tempus presentis inde in quatuor distinguitur...usque ad aduentum. De
     tempore renouationis. De aduentu. .i. De sancto andrea.
     .ij....De
     inuetione [sic] corporis sancte iustine. .C. lxxiiij.

     2. ff. 2v-289v    De aduentu domini. Aduentus domini per quatuor
     septimanas agitur ad significandum...[ends with De dedicatione
     ecclesiae:] templum ad honorem dei dedicatum erit...et regnat deus per
     omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Expliciunt legende sanctorum.

          T. Graesse, ed., Jacobi a Voragine Legenda aurea (Leipzig, 1846).
     The legends in this manuscript occur in the following order (with
     numbers corresponding to chapters in Graesse): 1-42, Faustinus and
     Jovita (of Brescia), 43-47 (missing Sophia), Longinus (of Mantua), 49-
     51 (missing Timothy), 53-63 (missing Fabianus), 65 (missing Apollonia),
     67-70 (missing Boniface), 72-126, 130, 127-29, 131, 134-38, 132, 139,
     133, 140-82.

     3. ff. 290r-291r    Three sections on St. Justina of Padua: De
     nomine
     [Graesse, op. cit., beginning of 142]; De sancta iustina virgine et
     martyre. Beata iustina filia regis uitaliani et regine...; De
     inuentione corporis sancte iustine. Cum paduanorum nobilissima
     ciuitas.... f. 291v blank except for a few notes.

     II. 4. ff. 292r-295r    De sancta clara. Uenerabilis christi sponse
     deoque dicate uirginis clare natalicium diem fratres...oramus ad
     Christum paupercularum pia mater...est omnis honor et gloria per
     infinita secula seculorum. Amen.

          BHL 1817

     5. ff. 295r-297r    De sancta barbara. Temporibus maximiani erat uir
     quidam nomine dyoscorus diues ualde...Valentinus uero quidam uir
     uenerabilis...saluatoreque nostro ihesu christo cui honor est et
     gloria...Amen.

          BHL 917

     6. f. 297r    De sancto pantaleone. Pantaleon filius senatoris pagani
     matris christiane...arbor que illa repleta est fructu.

          Cf. BHL 6442a

     7. ff. 297r-299v    Epistola beati anselmi episcopi de festo
     conceptionis beate marie uirginis. Ansellmus cantuariensis
     archiepiscopus et pastor angulorum [sic]...et matre sua gloriosa
     uirgine maria uiuet et regnat...Amen.

          Pseudo-Anselm; PL 159.319-24.

     8. ff. 299v-300v    De sancto thoma apostolo. Temporibus calixti pape
     secundi patriarcha yndorum Romam deueniens...cum clero et populo suo
     gratias reddidit deo cui est honor...Amen.

          Cf. BHL 8145

     9. ff. 300v-306v    Legenda sancti Willelmi
     confessoris. Scripturus uitam serui tui prout tu dederis et
     inspiraueris...que oculis nostris conspeximus Vel in nobis ipsis
     comperimus.

          BHL 8923; the life of William, hermit, priest; and founder of the
     Benedictine convent of Olive-sur-l'Ermitage, Hainaut.

          Composed of two manuscripts with different formats:
          I. Parchment, ff. 292 (foliated 1-11, 11*, 12-291), 330 x 220 (225
     x 145) mm. Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; single vertical bounding
     lines. Ruled lightly in ink or lead; remains of prickings in upper
     margins. Round gothic bookhand by a single scribe who made neat
     corrections, often on lines ruled in the margins. Border decorations
     (ff. 1r Preface, 2v Beginning of Text, 13v De natiuitate domini, 48v
     Pars secunda, 76v De resurrectione domini, and 108r De tempore
     peregrinationis): long stems, inner and top margins or between text
     columns, in blue, pink, and grey segments divided by small balls,
     sprouting curling foliage (blue, light blue, and orange), concentrated
     at corners, with large spiky leaves at terminals and large spiral
     angular returns filled with mauve or gold in the lower margins; large
     gold dots tucked under leaves and trailing from the tips of leaves on
     thin brown pen lines. Initials, 4- to 3-line, attached to stems, pink
     and grey with white highlights; foliage serifs, as above; letters
     filled with blue and gold, with some vine work (green and grey),
     against gold grounds with thick black edging. 2-line initials, set into
     text columns, blue or red, with very elaborate, minute penwork, blue,
     red, and occasionally green, built up of small spirals, roundels, and
     long "caterpillar"-like segments, often extending the full length of
     text columns; with curling flourishes in margin. 1-line initials in
     Table of Contents red or blue, with thin vertical strokes in the
     opposite color; chapter numbers in red. Headings and paragraph marks in
     blue or red; rubrics throughout.
          II. Parchment, ff. 15 (foliated 292-306), 326 x 220 (225 x 148)
     mm. Written in 2 columns of 41 lines; single vertical and double
     horizontal bounding lines, full across. Ruled in ink; prickings
     (oblique slashes) in all margins except inner. Well formed gothic
     textura. Plain initials, 5- to 3-line, alternating red and blue, with
     large serifs; one on f. 300v in red and blue. Headings and initial
     strokes in red.
          I-IX^^12, X^^12 (+ 1 leaf after 10, f. 118), XI-XXIV^^12 (half-leaf
     inserted after 6 of quire XX, f. 235), XXV^^2 (ff. 291-92), XXVI^^8,
     XXVII^^8 (-8). I: catchwords, with flourishes, under inner column; II:
     catchwords along lower edge, under inner column.
          Binding: s. xix. Pinkish brown calf case.

          Part I was written in Italy at the end of the 14th or beginning of
     the 15th century; the inclusion of Sts. Faustina and Jovita, Longinus,
     and Justina (arts. 2, 3), as well as the style of decoration, suggest
     Northern Italy. Part II may have been written in Hainaut (see art. 9)
     and added during the 15th century. Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps
     (no. 345; inscription on f. 1r; stamp on f. 3r; label on spine) from
     the Cistercian abbey of Cambron in Hainaut. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill
     in 1941 for the Albert H. Childs Memorial Collection.

     secundo folio: De sancto paulo

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 31, no. 111.

     Barbara A. Shailor