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MS. Bodl. 126

Summary Catalogue no.: 1990

Contents

Pomerius, 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

Origin: 11th century, late or 12th century, early ; English, Winchester, Old Minster (?)

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

Origin: 11th century, middle or second half ; English, Winchester, Old Minster (?) (Gneuss-Lapidge)

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]
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 148
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 149

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

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-04-07: Revised to incorporate all information from SC.

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