P. CANTOR
Vellum, 11 x 8.375, ff. 111 + 2, double columns of 41 lines. Early 13th cent., very well written. Old binding, stamped leather over boards, clasps gone.
Donor, T. C. S.
From Christ Church, Canterbury. On flyleaf is:
Uerbum abbreuiatum Alexandri de Hospreng. D. viia G. vus. Secunda Demonstratio
(Ancient Libraries, p. 510).
Collation: 2 flyleaves, 18 - 38 42 (+1) 58 -148 154 (4 stuck to cover).
In the cover a name Johannes (erasure) in red chalk, of the 16th cent. A note by the same hand on the flyleaf much resembling those of Abp Parker.
Contents:
1. (Petri Cantoris liber de tropis loquendi) . . . . . . . f. 1
Videmus nunc pr speculum, etc. Istud uerbum apostolicum
multiplicem habens expositionem.
The initial develops into a curious flourished ornament in the
lower margin, of red and blue and green. A similar one is
on f. 28.
Ends f. 25b : Audire uidere et huiusmodi que ei attribuuntur
propter signa eorum. deo gratias.
ff. 26a, 27b blank.
2. Capitula sequentis opusculi (138) . . . . . . . . 26b
Verbum abbreuiatum mag. Petri Cantoris parisiensis . . . . . 28
Contra superfluitatem, etc.
Vebum abbreuiatum fecit deus super terram (CCV 23).
End f. 109b : esse immensum et inexplicabile.
Expl. liber iste amen [qui uocatur verbum abbreu. Petri
Cant. paris.].
On ff. 45, 46 many parts of lines left blank by the copyist
have been supplied in the 16th cent. A note in lower margin
expresses disapproval.
Neil Kerr has confirmed that the note on the flyleaf is by John Parker.
Sheila Strongman, 'John Parker's Manuscripts: an edition of the lists in Lambeth Palace MS 737', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 7 (1977).