MS. Bodl. 237
Summary Catalogue no.: 1939
Contents
, Commentary on Pauline Epistles
Rubric: Incipit Expositio beatissimi Augustini nostri doctoris super Paulum
Rubric: Exceptiones Flori super Epistolas Pauli de libris Augustini [13th century]
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: v + 320 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 16.875 × 11.5 in.
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 83)
Binding
Stamped white sheepskin (about 1602) on older sewing and boards.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Exeter Cathedral: identifiable in the catalogues of 1327 and 1506 (G. Oliver, Lives of the Bishops of Exeter (1861), pp. 302, 373) (MLGB).
Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 2020) from the following sources, with reference to additional published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 83 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-02: Revised to incorporate all information in SC.