MS. Bodl. 126
Summary Catalogue no.: 1990
Contents
De uita contemplativa
, Rubric: Incipiunt Prosperi libri tres de uita contemplatiua et actiua
Incipit: Diu multumque renisus sum
With lists of chapters (see foll. 1, 14v, 31v) and prologue.
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 59)
Poem on the Mass Incipit: Adventum Christi patriarchas premonuisse | Innuit officium quod habemus tempore missę
Added early in the 12th century; 104 rhyming hexameters.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 62 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10 × 7.75 in.
Decoration
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 52)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Date, origin, see Gneuss-Lapidge 548.
Canterbury, St. Augustine's (?) (Barker-Benfield III.1833).
Presented by sir Walter Cope in 1602.
MS. Bodl. 126 - endleaves (fols. ii-iii, 60–61)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Troper (?)
Antiphons and responsories ; Office of St. Katherine ; Responsories for Office of the Dead
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:
Neums.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 2020) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , III (1973), no. 52 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition, endleaves]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts : A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (2014), nos. 548, 548.1
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 81
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-07: Revised to incorporate all information from SC.