MS. Bodl. 196
Summary Catalogue no.: 1897
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
(fol. 15)
'De virginitate' 2. (fol. 29)
, Gemma animae Preceded by four short prefatory pieces.
Incipit: Agmen in castris
Incipit: Missa a quatuor causis nomen accepit
Explicit: fructum in gaudio metant
On fol. 28v is a list of chapters of about the first three books.
3. (fol. 82)
, Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis Incipit: In primitiua ecclesia prohibitum erat
Final rubric: Explicit Summa magistri Johannis Beleth
A list of chapters is on fol. 82.
With some marginal notes.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 120 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 13 × 9.125 in.
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
Fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 522)
Binding
Plain white sheepskin on oak boards, English 15th cent. work, worn and repaired.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Christ Church, Canterbury (?): characteristic marginalia, but no other evidence (MLGB).
Owned in the 15th cent. by 'John Dygun' (fol. 3v, 4v), and John Godfrey (fol. iiv).
Presented by sir Walter Cope in 1602.
MS. Bodl. 196 - endleaves (fols. i-iv, 117–20)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Sermons (Franciscan)
One begins:
Incipit: Hebrei sunt? et ego ... Volens apostolus ad literam recondere
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 14th century
Additional Information
Record Sources
Description adapted (March 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 522 [decoration, date, localization]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance, acquisition, endleaves]
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-03-25: Description revised to include all information in SC.