| Description | Parchment leaf containing several texts in different hands. Probably originally from a copy of Arator's Acts of the Apostles or De Actibus Apostolorum. From the pattern of damage, this leaf appears to have been recycled as a front pastedown with the recto facing outwards.
On the recto the main text is De Actibus Apostolorum, Liber I, lines 846-870. It is written in a protogothic bookhand in brown ink with interlineal and marginal annotations in two hands. One of the annotators may have been the original scribe. The text begins with an incipit in red summarising Acts Ch.10. Arator's text begins at line 846: "Cesarea venerandus erat Cornelius urbe" and ends at "Previus o utinam nostrae petat actio vitae". On the verso the Arator text continues with "Mortalisque sibi studium proponat origo" and ends at line 877 "Europae atque asiae libyaeque tenebitur orbis."
In the margin beside the Arator text there are annotations in black ink in a Gothic textualis prescissa. The first reads: "Codex sancti eucharij sanctique mathie apostoli" and indicates that this fragment was bound into a book owned by St Matthias' Abbey, Trier. There is another inscription in the same hand immediately below which reads "Textus sententiarum", probably the work of this name by Peter Lombard [Petrus Lombardus]. This title is partially erased, as is another annotation in brown ink beside it which is now illegible.
There is a third inscription, also in black but in a later hand which is probably a list of works bound into the volume. It refers to Peter Lombard's Sententiarum and an expositio by Odo of Tournai (Canonis Odonis episcopi Cameracensis).
On the verso the last seven lines of the Arator text are written in the top right-hand corner. They are surrounded by another text in a different hand, also protogothic, using black ink. This text describes the four interpretations of scripture and is possibly taken from the glossa ordinaria. It begins "Quatuor ergo sunt regule scripture. i. historia que res gestas loquitur...". These two texts occupy the top third of the page.
On the remainder of the leaf there is a verse written in a minute documentary script, heavily abbreviated, in two columns of 31 and 37 lines. The ink was probably dark brown but has been badly damaged by paste. The text appears to relate to the transubstantiation.
There are several annotations, possibly shelfmarks or other identifiers. These are C, D1, ii2 and a13 on the recto and a large D2 on the verso. |
| AdminHistory | Probably owned by St Matthias' Abbey, Trier. Formerly known as the Abbey of St Eucharius, between 1150-1250 books owned by the abbey were inscribed "Codex Sancti Eucharii Sanctique Matthiae Apostoli", as this leaf is. |
| CustodialHistory | Found separated from the bulk of the collection, stored in a box with MS/FRAG/LAT/69-73. |