MS. Bodl. 451
Summary Catalogue no.: 2401
Contents
With preface and a list of chapters. The preface states that the book is a cento from the Fathers.
A moral treatise in thirty-six chapters, with a list of the chapters.
Fourteen sermons, perhaps all by Augustine, preceded by a list of the first seven: three are ascribed in the manuscript to Augustine. Schenkl (Bibl. Patrum Lat. Britannica i. 126) gives the references to Augustine in Migne's Patrologia Latina for eleven.
fol. iir a note on King Alfred, St. Neot and Edburga (daughter of Edward the Elder) who was buried at Winchester; the names Alfred and Edburga are written in majuscules each time they occur. The note was apparently written in 1150 CE.
On fol. 120r is added part of an account of a miracle performed on a blind woman
Physical Description
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 64
Initials. 'Salva et incolomis maneat per secula scriptrix', fol. 119v
The colophon is in red Rustic Capitals, with decorative line fillers before and after the writing.
Binding
White leather on boards (15th century English work).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Winchester, Hampshire, Abbey of St Mary the Virgin, of Benedictine nuns (Nunnaminster) (?). The term "scriptrix" in the Latin colophon (cited above) indicates that the scribe is a woman ("May this [female] scribe remain safe and saved for all time"; see P.R. Robinson"A Twelfth-century Scriptrix from Nunnaminster", p. 73). A note on fol. ii recto, written 1150 CE, apparently concerns especially St Edburga (1st abbess of Nunnaminster). Medieval binding: the pastedowns are from monastic accounts 1334 CE and include an item "pro petris de selborne" (for Selborne quarries and their use for bindings at Winchester in the Middle Ages see V. C. H. Hants., vol. 5). (MLGB3: evidence from binding or pastedowns and from contents).
The name 'Goky' (13th century?) appears to be on fol. 118v, in a half erased sentence.
Given by Sir Wm. Billesby in 1605.
MS. Bodl. 451, flyleaves
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Written early in the 14th century, but imitating an older hand
With space for musical notation
History
MS. Bodl. 451, flyleaves
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-10-07: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)