MS. Bodl. 186
Summary Catalogue no.: 2088
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Stegmüller, Bibl. 2261; this copy, VIII.ii.408, 'des. octo stadia passus mille faciunt. PL 50, 816'; Stegmüller, Bibl. 10096, lists fols. 91–6 as a separate work (Interpretationes nominum), but see Vivien Law and James P. Carley, ‘Grammar and Arithmetic in Two Thirteenth-Century English Monastic Collections: Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 75 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 186 (S.C. 2088)’, Journal of Medieval Latin, 1 (1991), 140–67 at 149.
A list of words expressing the sound of animals, and some more peculiar words. Law and Carley, op. cit., item 4.
Followed by extracts from Caper, Orthographia (Law and Carley, op. cit., item 5)
At fol. 123v follow 'De uitiis gentium' and 'de uirtutibus earum', and notes on Latin names of places, Roma and Londonie being prominent. Law and Carley, op. cit., items 8–10
Law and Carley, op. cit., items 11–12: fols. 133v-141r, presented here as 'Liber secundus' of Bede, comprise the sections of Bede's text not incorporated into Alcuin's text.
Law and Carley, item. 13: extract from Petrus Elias, Summa in Priscianum. Followed by anonymous texts on numbers; an extract from Bede, De temporum ratione, on finger-counting; and a text on square roots (Law and Carley items 14–17)
Followed by a note on grammar (Law and Carley, item 19)
Law and Carley, item 20. Followed by further extracts from Petrus Elias, Law and Carley, item 21.
Law and Carley, item 22
Law and Carley, item 23
Further extracts from Petrus Elias, Priscian, and Isidore: Law and Carley, items 24–31.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading Abbey (?): rejected in MLGB, but Law and Carley, p. 146, suggest that 'Clemens Braye' on the front flyleaf is Clement Braye, monk of Reading in 1486.
Presented by William Burdet of Sonning in 1608.
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-05-11: Revised to incorporate all information in SC.