MS 2

Summary

Described Thomas James 356; Bernard 357; Stanley C. 2; Nasmith 2; James, Bury Library, p. 23; James, Corpus 2; Survey III, no. 56 and pl. 148–153 (plate also in Survey II, fig. 35); Walter Cahn, Romanesque Bible Illumination (Ithaca, NY, 1982), no. 27; Robinson, no. 119 and pl. 45, 46 (both of f. 33); CBMLC 4, B13.2; B15.17; R.M. Thomson, The Bury Bible (Woodbridge, 2001), pp. 3–10 and passim; Illuminations 19 (includes plates of ff. iv–2 and f. 94).

[1]

Recto of first flyleaf

Too master adam s this be deliuered wyth spede.

Note in the Bury Bible; two lines in large letters along the right-hand margin of the recto of the first original flyleaf, which is now pasted to f. 1.

[2]

f. 76^v

Holde ye p(?)re for god sake.

Note in left margin.

MS c. 1130–1135; English notes s. xv. C.M. Kauffmann in ‘ “Elkanah's Gift”: Texts and Meaning in the Bury Bible Miniatures’, JWCI 59 (1996), pp. 283, dates the MS to c. 1135; Thomson (p. 27) dates it to c. 1130. MLGB: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr. MS given to the College by Matthew Parker.