MS. Bodl. 229
Summary Catalogue no.: 2120
Contents
, Sermones de uerbis domini
Sixty-six sermons, with a list at the beginning, headed '... Augustini de verbo euuangelii secundum Mattheum'. A 13th cent. (?) title on fol. iv 'Gregorius .xlta. Omeliarum' deceived the writers of the 1605 and 1620 catalogues.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 180 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 12.25 × 9.875 in.
Condition
Injured by damp at beginning, and repaired.
Decoration
Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 46)
Binding
Stamped white sheepskin (about 1602) over older sewing and boards, worn, with peculiar arched strings let into each board to secure the band-ends.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Exeter Cathedral: identifiable in catalogues of 1327 and 1506 (MLGB3)
Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 2020) from the following sources, with additional reference to other published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 46 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]
Bibliography
Elaine M. Drage, “Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072 : a Reassessment of the Manuscript Evidence.” (D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1979), pp. 395-7
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-05-21: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.