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Summary Catalogue no.: 2095

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Gregory the Great, Dialogues
Rubric: Incipit liber primus Dialogorum sancti Gregorii pape urbis Rome eiusque diaconi Petri De quorundam miraculis sanctorum

With marginal notes.

At fol. 137 is a 13th cent. extract from a Latin theological work, and an erased inscription of which 'secundum Hie⟨ronymum⟩' can perhaps be discerned.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 138 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.75 × 7.375 in.

Condition

Partly stained by damp.

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 81)

Binding

Stamped white sheepskin (about 1602) on older sewing and boards, injured and repaired.

History

Origin: 12th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Exeter Cathedral: 'Liber sancti Petri Exoniensis. Si quis illum inde abstulerit: eterne maledictioni subiaceat,' 13th cent. Identifiable in the catalogues of 1327 and 1506 (MLGB).

Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 81 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 209

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-05-12: Revised to incorporate all information in SC.