Beinecke MS 210                                                     Italy, s. XII^^med
Bible, with glossa ordinaria (fragment)

          ff. 1r-22v    //et huic nouissime dare sicut et tibi. Ann [sic]
     licet michi facere quod uolo...mandaui uobis et ecce ego uobiscum sum
     usque ad consummationem seculi.

          Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending:
     qui diuina mansione sint [corrected from sunt] digni (Stegmueller, v.
     9, no. 11827; PL 114.150-78). Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled
     hand, now mostly erased.

          Parchment, ff. 22, 240 x 146 (written space for text of Matthew:
     160 x 52; for text with gloss: 160 x 126) mm. Text written in 20 widely
     spaced lines; gloss in ca. 40 lines arranged in single columns on each
     side of the text. Single vertical and horizontal bounding lines full
     across; ruled in crayon for the vertical bounding lines of the central
     column and in hard point, on hair side, for all other lines. Prickings
     in upper, lower, and outer margins.
          I^^6, II-III^^8 (gathering missing between I and II).
          Written in fine carolingian minuscule of two sizes, the smaller
     script with tall ascenders; marginalia added in several later hands.
     Early arabic numerals in upper right corner indicating chapter number.
          Binding: s. xx. Plain vellum wrapper.

          Written in Italy in the middle of the 12th century. Evidence of
     use and ownership in the 13th century includes inscription on f. 22v:
     "Iste matheus concessus est fratri Ottolino de busco ordinis fratrum
     heremitarum qui est natione Cremonensis." Belonged to Henry Fletcher;
     gift of Mrs. Henry Fletcher in 1953.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 41, no. 210.

     Barbara A. Shailor