Manuscript fragments from the Phillipps Collection

28 manuscript fragments from the Phillipps Collection, comprising 1 parchment leaf ‘Apocalypse’, c.1000-1100; 1 parchment leaf ‘Moralia in Job’, c.1000-1100; 1 parchment leaf ‘Missal’, c.1400; 1 parchment leaf ‘Vita Beatae Mariae Aegyptiacae’, c.1100-1200; 2 partial parchment leaves ‘Moralia in Job’, c.1100; 1 parchment leaf ‘Summa Theologica’, c.1270-1300; 1 parchment leaf ‘Breviary’, c.1200-1300; 1 parchment leaf ‘Sarum Lectionary’, c.1250-1300; 1 parchment leaf ‘Breviary and Psalter’, c.1300-1400; parchment bifolium ‘Planctus de Maria Magdalena’, c.1200-1300; 1 parchment leaf ‘Sententiae’, c.1200-1250; 1 parchment leaf ‘Media Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli’, c.1150-1200; 1 parchment leaf ‘Commentaria in Epistolam ad Romanos’, c.1100; 1 paper leaf ‘Books of Solomon’, c.1500; parchment bifolium ‘Theology’, c.1400; 1 parchment leaf ‘Breviary and Psalter’, c.1300-1400; 1 parchment leaf ‘Noted Missal’, c.1100; 1 parchment leaf ‘Lectura in Decretales Gregorii IX’, c.1300; 1 parchment leaf ‘Constitutiones Clementinae’, c.1300-1350; 1 parchment leaf ‘Theology’, c.1300-1400; 1 parchment leaf ‘Liber Eruditionis Religiosorum’, c.1300; 1 parchment leaf ‘Margarita Decreti’, c.1200-1300; 1 parchment leaf ‘Collectanea in Epistolas Pauli’, c.1160-1200; 1 parchment leaf ‘Media Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli’, c.1150-1200; 1 parchment leaf ‘Media Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli’, c.1150-1200; 1 parchment leaf ‘Collectanea in Epistolas Pauli’, c.1200; half of 1 parchment leaf ‘Postilla super Epistolas Pauli’, c.1400; 1 parchment leaf ‘Gregorialis Part IV’, c.1150-1200.

Fragments in the category TAK/1, dating from 1000-1500, were purchased by Takamiya as a single lot from California Book Auction Galleries on 27 January 1980, lot 192. Originally a collection of 30 fragments, they were purchased by Takamiya as 29 fragments (missing number 29) and donated to the Centre for Medieval Studies as 28 fragments (missing number 23, a fragment of a Middle English Gilte Legende, from first half of the fifteenth century, which was placed on long-term deposit at the Beinecke Library of Yale University in the USA in 2013, along with all of the other Middle English manuscripts of Takamiya’s large collection).
The fragments probably originated in the vast collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), from which Lionel and Philip Robinson purchased a large number of fragments and in the 1940s made up collections of specimen leaves illustrating various scripts through the centuries for sale to collectors. The set of 30 fragments purchased by Takamiya had previously been owned by Mrs Doheny of California.

Note that what would have been number 23 in this series was not donated and is instead on long-term deposit at the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

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