MS. Bodl. 159
Summary Catalogue no.: 2009
Physical Description
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Binding
White leather on boards, clasps lost, 15th cent. English work, re-backed.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Crediton, Devon, collegiate church of Holy Cross: fol. 257r 'Liber magistri Ricardi ... r... assignatur [?] et datur [?] magistro Johanni Lyndon decano Criditon'. (MLGB)
'Liber Johannis Lyndon' (foll. iv, 257): in the same hand is a list of the contents of the whole volume.
'Guilihelmi Muggi liber ex dono magistri Georgii ⟨Ma⟩son,' 16th cent.
Presented by William Ballow, of Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1604, he being proctor at the time.
MS. Bodl. 159 – Part A
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Eighty-nine in number: the title is added.
On five preceding leaves are a list of the sermons, and two sermons. (De non jurando by Augustine, and De Carne, Mundo et Diabolo, beg. 'Adiuua me Domine, ... Corpus fugere': Migne's Patrol. Lat. 38. 962 and [?]): the latter sermon is imperfect, fol. vi being mutilated.
Twenty-five sermons (with notes), a list of which is on fol. 130v.
Fols. 131–143r are occupied with indexes of subjects to the two preceding articles.
Followed at fol. 154 by an index of subjects.
Nine separate sermons by or attributed to st. Augustine (Migne's Patrol. Lat. 39. 1946, [?], 39. 1783, 39. 2206, 39. 2301, 39. 2303, 39. 2307, 39. 2237, 39. 2264): the one without a reference in Migne beg. 'Quemadmodum desiderat ceruus ... O fons vite'.
In seven books, with lists of chapters.
At fol. 182 is 'Seneca de Ebrietate', an extract from one of Seneca's letters, and at fol. 244v 'De collacione huius vite transitorie ad vitam eternam', beg 'Eripe me de inimicis ... Sic viuere debemus'.
For items 7–10 (fols. 185–232) see part B.
An extract from Jerome's Rescriptio de cessatione legalium
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
Hand(s)
Several hands.
History
MS. Bodl. 159 – Part B
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Letters of st. Jerome ad Eustochium virginem, ad Heliodorum (fol. 198v, cf. 160v), ad Nepotianum (fol. 201). Before this set of letters some blank columns on foll. 183v-184 are filled with extracts from st. Jerome and his Epistola ad Pammachium (fol. 184).
Followed by a story 'de quadam virgine que sibi nasum abscidit ne desponsaretur'.
With list of chapters.
On fols. 232, 256 have been added the two letters of st. Augustine ad Valentinum monachum.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
Hand(s)
Several hands.
History
MS. Bodl. 159 – Part C
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
Hand(s)
Several hands.
History
MS. Bodl. 159 – Part D
Contents
A leaf or two are lost at the end.
Physical Description
History
Additional Information
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-14: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.