Item incipiuntur Epistole de communi et primo de apostolis Ezechielis
Index of the Bible, divided into Old and New Testament, sorted in categories from the Common of saints and divided into two groups, Epistles or Gospel.f. 9vb: apostles; f. 10rb: martyrs; f. 11rb: confessors; f. 11va: virgins.
f. 11vbNomen scriptoris si tu cognoscere velis Sit ter ar primum nolque secundum dusque supremus
Egressus ihesus trans torrentem cedron (John 18:1) [...] Quia nichil vtilis est nichil salubrius quam circa dominicam passionem occupari
quia poterit esse in generacione christi et iam non filius adam veteris neque ewe sed filius noui adam id est tristi et virginis gloriose ut in eorum generacione hic per gloriam et per gloriam in futuro ad quam nos perducat Amen
VisColl collation. Quire 12 tentative, may consist of three singletons added to a quinternion. Parchment guards made of strips from an older manuscript.
Quire signatures in the form of letters at the end of every quire. (Some hardly visible due to trimming.)
Condition
Textblock
Some staining and wear throughout. Noticeable book worm damage in places, especially on ff. 158–178 (this indicates that the book may have been kept open at this section).
(LCI)
Top left corner: National Library book label with current signum.
Textblock
(f. L1r)
Top left corner, in black ink by a medieval hand: 20 lines of text in two paragraphs. The first paragraph ends with a reference to Thomas Aquinas.
(ff. 12r–213r)
Throughout marginal and occasionally interlinear additions by several medieval hands. The additions mainly seem to be corrections and become less frequent after the first half.
(f. 71v)
A marginal note and some interlinear glosses in Czech.
(ff. 137r–162r)
Chapter indentifications in pencil by a modern hand. On (f. 137r) a note in Swedish attributed the text to to Petrus Comestor.
(f. Fragment_1)
A note placed between (f. 47v) and (f. 48r). One side of the note contains four partial lines of text in Czech by a medieval hand.
(f. Fragment_2)
A note placed between (f. 124v) and (f. 125r). One side of the note contains eight partial lines of text in ink by a medieval hand.
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in dark brown ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red.
(f. 1r): the index opens with a puzzle D over 5 lines in red and black on a yellow background.
(ff. 12r–217r): chapters are opened by plain initials over 2-5 lines in red on a yellow background with details in red. Paragraphs have plain initials over 2 lines in red.
ff. 12, 76, 101, 137, 152, 182: leaf marks made of strips from a manuscript.
Binding
Medieval binding. Originally brown leather over bevelled wooden boards. 4 double raised bands and endbands. Brass corner and centre bosses. Two pin strap buckles. Spine, remnants of an old label (text not legible) 5 paper labels wiht text in ink: ‘136’ or ‘138’; ‘No 5. 1. Novium Testamentum Latine. 2. Historia ecclesiastica temporis Christi’; stamped in gold: ‘A 170’; ‘5.’; ‘e. 30. 2. 5.’; ‘131.’, ‘291?’.
315 ×
235 ×
75 mm
Leather very worn (original colour almost completely gone). One strap missing, the second may be renovated. Several bosses missing. Boards exposed on edges. Original pastedowns removed.
Bohemia?, Moravia?, 15th century. The scribe identifies himself (in a cryptic way) as Arnoldus on f. 11vb. The presence of phrases in Czech on f. 8va and f. 182ra, as well as glosses on f. 71va and Fragment_1 indicates an origin in Bohemia or Moravia.
Provenance
The manuscript has been at the National Library since at least the 17th century. It was probably taken as spoils of war during the Thirty Year's War. The labels on the spine refer to the old catalogues. It is listed in Jaches's catalogue of 1695 (U 118:10) as ‘131’; in Jaches's catalogue of 1698 (U 122) as ‘291’; and in the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e) as ‘Libr. mscr. in fol. nr 5.’ Finally, in Hammarsköld’s 19th century catalogue (U 133) it is listed as ‘e. 30. 2. 5.’.
