MS. Bodl. 16
Summary Catalogue no.: 1859
Contents
1. (fol. 1)
, Meditationes de passione Christi (Meditationes uitae Christi, cc. 73–85) Rubric: Meditaciones quas scripsit cardinalis Bonauentura de Passione Domini nostri Ihesu Christi
Incipit: Adueniente iam et imminente
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 27)
, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis Rubric: Meditaciones beati Bernardi abbatis
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 49)
, Emendatio uitae Rubric: Tractatus Ricardi heremite in cimiterio sanctimonialium de Hampole humati de emendacione peccatoris
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 78)
Rubric: Littera fratris Viterini Venturini ordinis fratrum predicatorum quam misit fratri Rogero canonico Sancte Fredeswyde Oxonie de Banonia
Rubric: Remedium contra spiritum blasphemie
Incipit: Fratri Rogero dilecto
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 82v)
Note on Wisdom
Incipit: Sciendum est quod amatores
Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 84)
Epistle and Gospel list, Use of Sarum Temporale (fol. 84); sanctorale (fol. 91v); common of the dedication and the saints (fol. 99). Incipits only; sanctorale only extract.
Language(s): Latin
(fols. 100v-104)
, Proverbes de bon enseignement Rubric: Les parables Salamon
Incipit: Luy sages dit en son liuere | Que comencement de bien uiuere
Added, fifteenth century.
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
7. (fol. 152v)
, Commentary on the Song of Songs (extract, beginning at section iv) Incipit: Oleum effusum nomen tuum
Language(s): Latin
8. (fol. 157v)
, Speculum peccatoris Rubric: Tractatus qui vocatur Speculum peccatoris
Incipit: Quoniam in huius vite via
Language(s): Latin
9. (fol. 166)
, Letters (excerpts) Incipit: Jeronimus ad Heliodorum episcopum. Recordare tyrocinii tui.
Some leaves lost at the end.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 182 + ii fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 105 mm.
Layout
list in 23 lines; written space 115 × 77 mm.
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Presented by Sir Henry Savile in 1620.
Record Sources
Description adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957) [item 5 and physical description], and the Summary Catalogue (1922).
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2020-03-19: Revised to include all information in SC.