MS. Bodl. 274
Summary Catalogue no.: 1942
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1.
, Letters Final rubric: Liber epistolarum beati Augustini episcopi
A collection of 132 letters from or to Augustine, preceded by an (injured) list of them: at fol. 175 ten more are added, in the original hand.
2. (fol. 178)
, Opus prosodiacum The first seventy-eight lines (A-C), with the preface; added in the original hand.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 179 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 16.375 × 12 in.
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 466)
Binding
Stamped white sheepskin (about 1602) on older sewing and boards, repaired.
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, 372) (MLGB).
Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 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, I (1966), no. 466 [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.