MS. Bodl. 241
Summary Catalogue no.: 1925
Contents
Enarrationes in Psalmos cxix-cl
, Rubric: Aurelii Augustini egregii doctoris de Psalmo Cº хіхmо tractatus
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment; rather soiled
Extent: ii + 188 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 14.75 × 11 in.
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
Good initials. Cf. MS. Bodl. 257 etc.
Marginal sketches added, 15th century. Cf. MSS Bodl. 413, Digby 158. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 144)
On the margin of fol. 49v is a stilus-drawing of a monk asleep in a chair, cf. fol. 47v.
Binding
White leather on boards, with tabs at top and bottom, but clasps and bosses lost, contemporary English work, perhaps of Readin.g
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading Abbey: identifiable in the catalogue of 1192 (MLGB).
Reading Abbey: 'Hic est liber. S. Marie de Radynge. Quem qui celauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit,' 13th cent.
Presented by William Burdet of Sonning in 1608.
Record Sources
Description adapted (March 2020) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 144 [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
2020-03-31: Revised to incorporate all information in SC.