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

MS. Bodl. 397

Summary Catalogue no.: 2228

Physical Description

Composite: three parts
Extent: iv + 135 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.625 × 7.875 in.

Layout

2 cols.

Decoration

Illuminated capitals.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Iste est liber sancte Marie de Radynge ex dono Iohannis Sarum, de quo qui fraudem fecerit noverit se excommunicatum.' (s. xiii ex, on fol.. iii verso, verso of former pastedown; with a list of contents in the same hand. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Presented by William Burdet of Sonning in 1608.

MS. Bodl. 397 – Part 1

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum
Rubric: Interpretaciones Isidori
Incipit: Adam homo sive terrenus vel terra rubra

Here attributed to Isidore of Seville .

Stegmüller, Bibl., 10094
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 2v)
Stephen Langton (Ps.-Remigius of Auxerre), Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum
Rubric: Interpretaciones Remigii de nominibus Hebraicis secundum litteras alphabeti
Incipit: Aaz interpretatur apprehendens ... Aad testificans

The hand changes after fol. 8 and in fol. 15ar, and the list ends in G (Gomorm): fols. 15b-g are blank.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; English

MS. Bodl. 397 – Part 2

Contents

Language(s): Latin

3. (fol. 16)
Bandinus, Commentary on Peter Lombard, Sentences
Rubric: Excerpta sentenciarum secundum magistrum Hugonem de Sancto Victore
Incipit: Circa res diuinas studiosis

In four books. But these books, though their subjects are the same as those of the first four books of Hugo's Summa Sententiarum, are the Libri quatuor Sententiarum theologicarum of Bandinus, with variations in the text.

At fol. 43r are added

(1) a note about the relations of history and allegory

Incipit: Hystoria est testis temporum

(2) a prophecy of things to happen between 1271 and 1322, in two hands

Incipit: Deus in creatione mundi operatus est per septenas

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; English

MS. Bodl. 397 – Part 3

Contents

4. (fol. 44)
Peter Comestor, Historia scholastica
Incipit: Mundus quatuor modis dicitur
Incipit: Fuit in diebus Herodis ... Dauid ampliare volens [New Testament]

The hand changes after fol. 59.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, second half ; English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2023) from the Summary Catalogue (1922).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.