London, British Library, Royal 7 C. iv Defensor, "Liber scintillarum," with continuous OE gloss

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290. London, British Library, Royal 7 C. iv

Defensor, "Liber scintillarum," with continuous OE gloss

[Ker 256, Gneuss 470)

HISTORY: A large-format deluxe book, beautifully designed and fully executed, containing the famous 7c florilegium of biblical and patristic quotations arranged topically in 81 numbered chapters. Continuous OE gloss is from an exemplar that had a slightly different Latin text (Verdonck 1976). Probably written at and certainly located at Christ Church, Canterbury; this manuscript went with Lord John Lumley's library probably as a gift to the Royal collection after his death in 1609 Gayne and Johnson 1956: 14-15). An earlier owner is indicated by the ex libris on f. 19r: 'Johannis Apsley de Thakeham me possidit et per viginti annos possidebat. 1567'. Used by Franciscus Junius (his notes on ff. 93v, 96r, 99v).