MS. Bodl. 38
Summary Catalogue no.: 8849
Physical Description
Binding
Old parchment binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
A Fleury provenance for the whole volume (as well as for part 2 only) has been suggested but is regarded as doubtful by M. Mostert ( The library of Fleury (1989), BF913-BF916).
‘ Petri Danielis Aurel. ’ (d. 1603)
Paul Petau (d. 1614): his pressmark ‘G (?) 30’ on fol. 1 (G. Constable in Consuetudines Benedictinae Variae, Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum 6 (1975), ex inf. E. Pellegrin, p. 3).
His son, Alexandre Petau (d. 1672): listed in the catalogue of his manuscripts, Leiden, Voss. lat. Q. 76, and in B. Montfaucon, Bibliotheca (1739) (as ‘1441’: I.68 (Prudentius), 91 (Maximianus) (Constable, ex inf. E. Pellegrin, as above).
Nicolas Heinsius (d. 1681); no. 5 in the sale catalogue of his books.
Bought at the Heinsius sale (1683) by Edward Bernard (d. 1697)
Bought by the Bodleian from his widow in 1698.
MS. Bodl. 38 – Part 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Twenty elegiac lines.
Eighteen elegiac lines.
Twenty-three hexameters.
Twenty-three elegiac lines, vv. 2–36 on a later leaf in the hand of Petrus Daniel, who adds collations of the other poems with a different manuscript.
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 38 – Part 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Introit trope on the Os iusti
Prose on (?) the Alleluia Eripe me
Proses
St. Benedict
Opening words of the R. Sancti immaculata and V. Beata et virgo et gloriosa
R. Hodie Maria virgo, V. Simeon iustus, for the Purification of the Virgin.
Ant. Preclarus dies ortus est of St. Nazarius, priest and martyr.
Pr. G. Constable, ‘Horologium stellare monasticum’, in Consuetudines Benedictinae Variae, Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum 6 (1975), pp. 1–18.
Pr. B. Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Studien II, p. 74.
Physical Description
Layout
Fols. 16–19: 10 lines, written space 70 × 50 mm.
French adiastematic non-rhythmical neums
History
Provenance
From an unidentified Benedictine monastery in north-central France: Fleury and S. Aignan, Orléans, have been suggested but there are difficulties with both (see Constable, as cited art. 2 above).
MS. Bodl. 38 – Part 3
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Books 1–2, poetical parts only; incomplete, lacking I.3.9 (Emicat) - II.2.5 (retrahat manum) due to loss of some leaves.
Rhythmical poem of twenty-five lines.
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 38 – Part 4
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
History
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.