A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Bodl. 279

Summary Catalogue no.: 2241

Contents

Robert Holcot, Commentary on Wisdom
Rubric: Holcote

In 212 chapters, with some marginal notes and two indexes, one a 15th cent. addition. The original index ends 'Explicit hic Hulcot Sapiencia dragmata dans tot'. The hand changes after fol. 205. On foll. 1-2 are three long passages, the second an omitted part of chapter 69 (fol. 85), the first and third perhaps also omissions in the text.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 252 leaves, in double columns
Dimensions (bindig): 15.625 × 11.25 in.

Decoration

Good penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 656)

History

Origin: 14th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'Istum librum habuit magister Johannes Raw de bonis magistri Martini lerchedekne [Archdeacon] per manus magistri Michaelis lerchedekne partim ex dono ad orandum pro anima Maartini predicti & partim emit illum ... anno Domini М° CCCC° XXXIX°'

Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter 'Liber Holcote super Sapiens ... Ex dono magistri Johannis Row huius Ecclesie quondam Subdecani'. Row or Raw, subdean of Exeter cathedral, died in 1463. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Matthew Holford: encode full description from Summary Catalogue.