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

MS. Bodl. 388

Summary Catalogue no.: 2217

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 3)

The Canon of the Mass, with a marginal and interlinear gloss

Gloss on the Canon of the Mass
Incipit: (interlinear) Prima ante. Nota in hac per Christum
2. (fol. 10)
Ivo of Chartres, Panormia
Rubric: Parnomia Yuonis
Incipit: Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum regularum
Final rubric: Parnomię Iuonis est hic in propatulo finis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 135 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.625 × 7.25 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 266, pl. XXV:

Good table of consanguinity.

Fine and other initials.

Binding

In the 17th cent. English binding are inserted two sides of an Italian binding of about 1500 with stamped ornament.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; English (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Worksop (or Radford), Nottinghamshire, Augustinian priory of Saint Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert: 'Memorandum quod iste liber constat monasterio de Wyrkesop'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Apparently acquired by the Bodleian about 1618-20.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Oct. 2022) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 266 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2022-10: Revised to incorporate all information in printed catalogues.