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

MS. Bodl. 444

Summary Catalogue no.: 2385

Physical Description

Composite: two parts bound together about 1620
Extent: 177 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.625 × 8.25 in.

History

MS. Bodl. 444 – Part 1

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Isidore, De nominibus legis et euangelii siue Allegoriae

Here without title, but with the prologue to Orosius giving the author's name.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 10v)
Isidore, In libros ueteris et noui testamenti prooemia
Rubric: Liber Isidori episcopi ad Dionisium de Vetere et Novo Testamento
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 17v)
Isidore, De ortu et obitu patrum
Rubric: De ortu & gestis & obitu & uita quorundam illustrium virorum ...
Final rubric: Explicit de utroque Testamente
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 11th century, late, or 12th century, early ; England, Salisbury Cathedral

Provenance and Acquisition

On origin and date see T. Webber, Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075–c. 1125 (1992), pp. 12-13

Fols. 1-27: Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see removed from Sherborne in 1078: 'Iste liber est ec[...]' s. xiii; cf. Salisbury Cath. 162: 'Iste liber est ecclesie Sarr'; other MSS. have 'Liber ecclesie Sarr'. (MLGB3: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe).

The same scribe s. xii wrote the letters 'D.M.' as a 'nota bene' sign in the margins of Aberdeen UL 216, Bodl. 392, 444 (fols. 1–27), 756, 765, 768, 835; Fell 1, 4; Rawl. C.723; Salisbury Cath. 10, 24, 25, 37, 67, 78, 88, 106, 128, 129, 135, 140, 154, 159, 165. Cf. Bodley 835, which is in similar script. Bound up with a larger MS. in s. xvii. (MLGB3)

Acquired not later than 1602.

MS. Bodl. 444 – Part 2

Contents

4. (fol. 28)
Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Cher , Commentary on the Apocalypse
Rubric: Exposicio fratris Hugonis predicatoris super Apocalipsim [c. 1300]
Incipit: Uidit lacob in sompnis scalam stantem ... Iiiior sunt cause huius operis, scilicet efficiens, materialis, formalis, finalis
Explicit: quicquid uiderit corrigendum, Benedictus sit Ihesus
(Stegmüller, Bibl. 3771)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Appears to have been acquired about 1620, and bound with the earlier acquisition.

MS. Bodl. 444, endleaf

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Lectionary (?)

Portion of a sermon for Advent (?).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: part of one leaf
Dimensions (fragment): 250 × 190 mm.
Upper, inner margins and part of the text cut.

Layout

2 cols., 164 mm. width

History

Origin: 13th century, late ; England

MS. Bodl. 444, endleaf

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922) with additional reference to other literature as cited.

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-11: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.