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MS. Bodl. 437

Summary Catalogue no.: 2378

Contents

Moses Maimonides, Ductor neutrorum (Latin translation)
Incipit: In nomine domini dei mundi. Notum fac mihi viam per quam ambulem […] Istius libri prima intentio est explanare diuersitates nominum
Explicit: (fol. 115r) lux orietur eis. Benedicamus domino deo gratias.
Final rubric: Explicit Raby Moyses de duce dubiorum
Incipit: (fol. 115v) Hec sunt precepta que proprie dicuntur precepta
Explicit: (fol. 118v) ut non multiplicet argentum et aurum. Explicit.

As pr. [Paris] 1520 (USTC 145234); ed. Diana di Segni, 2019, with this ms. as siglum I. Book divisons not marked in the text; fol. 39r, 'secunda pars incipit', added (s. xv/xvi) in upper margin; part 3 begins fol. 71r.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: naturales. Nonne vides
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (modern paper) + 119 + 1 (parchment) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 195 mm.
Foliation: i, 1-108a, 108b-119

Layout

1 col., c. 51-54 lines; ruled space 230 × 135 mm.

Hand(s)

Anglicana; apparently one hand

Decoration

4-line puzzle initial and one-sided penwork border in blue and red, fol. 1r; elsewhere 2-line blue initials with red penwork.

Binding

Quarter-binding of parchment and paper-covered pasteboards, over an earlier leather spine with five supports. Four rust marks at the foot of fol. 119 probably the marks of a chain staple.

History

Origin: 14th century, middle ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Annotations in a number of 14th-16th century hands. Top of fol. 1 (with an earlier ex libris?) cut away.

Thomas Allen: annotations in his hand (A. Watson, 'Thomas Allen of Oxford', in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries, ed. M. B. Parkes and A. G. Watson, 310); 'fo. 51' (fol. 1r).

Given by him to the Bodleian in 1601 (inscription, fol. 1r; Watson, 'Thomas Allen', 295).

Record Sources

Summary description by Matthew Holford (August 2022). Previously described in the Summary Catalogue (1922).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 337
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 338

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-08: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.