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Library - Notes 1. Jesus College, Cambridge, MS,
34. This thirteenth-century manuscript includes two library catalogues,
bound together. The first and longest runs from f. 1r – 5r
and it has been suggested that this is a copy of a late twelfth-century
list (see below); the second shorter catalogue runs from f. 5v-6
and is likely a copy of a thirteenth-century list (see below).
For a recent edition of the two copies of the library catalogue
(and Leland’s observations on the abbey’s holdings
in the later Middle Ages), see Corpus of British Medieval Library
Catalogues 3: Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians,
ed. D. N. Bell (London, 1992), pp. 87-120. Bell argues that the
two copies (Z19 and Z20) are not simply a longer and an abbreviated
version of the catalogue but rather copies of two separate lists,
the first and longer one (Z19) a copy of a late twelfth- century
list; the second, a copy of a thirteenth-century list. This, he
suggests, explains why the second copy although shorter than the
first, omits some books that are listed in the first (which had
probably been lost), includes additional works (acquired in the
interim) and is organised differently (a new librarian with fresh
ideas), see pp. 87-88. Surviving manuscripts are discussed by A.
Lawrence ‘English Cistercian manuscripts of the twelfth century’ in
Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles, ed. C. Norton
and D. Park (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 284-298. |