MS. Bodl. 397
Summary Catalogue no.: 2228
Physical Description
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
Here attributed to Isidore of Seville .
The hand changes after fol. 8 and in fol. 15ar, and the list ends in G (Gomorm): fols. 15b-g are blank.
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 397 – Part 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
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
(2) a prophecy of things to happen between 1271 and 1322, in two hands
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 397 – Part 3
Contents
The hand changes after fol. 59.
Physical Description
History
Additional Information
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.