MS. Bodl. 422
Summary Catalogue no.: 2321
Contents
Language(s): Latin
tr. Rufinus
Then follow seventeen homilies on Genesis (the last not by Origen), preceded by a list of the chapters.
tr. Rufinus
Thirteen homilies or 'libri': preceded by a list of the chapters.
tr. Rufinus
Sixteen homilies.
On fol. 176v, in a hand of about A.D. 1200, are added two sets of rhyming hexameters, partly leonine, the first comparing a man with a sheep, the second describing hell: containing thirteen and sixteen lines respectively. The margin of fol. 106 is injured.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 38 lines, ruled space 220–5 × 130–5 mm.
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 110, pl. XI:
One fine historiated initial copying an earlier, probably insular, model/
Many good initials, some of which perhaps added, 12th century, second half. ()
Binding
White parchment on boards, clasp lost, but three old parchment book-markers remain, connected at the top, contemporary English work, repaired. Title on spine.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
In some monastic library this volume bore the mark ‘.i.f’ and ‘.lj.’ (front pastedown)
Presented to the Library by sir Robert Cotton (who writes an inscription on a 'votiva ara' at fol. 1) in 1603.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-08: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.