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

MS. Bodl. 477

Summary Catalogue no.: 2005

Contents

Hugh of St. Victor, De sacramentis christianae fidei
Rubric: Liber Hugonis de Sacramentis ab initio usque ad finem in una serie dispositi

With a prologue; only the first of the two books is here.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: et permissio signa sunt
.
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + iii + 56 + vi + i leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Front endleaves: non-medieval pencil Roman numerals i-iv in top RH corner.

Main textblock: non-medieval black ink Arabic numerals 1-56 in top RH corner.

Back endleaves: non-medieval pencil Arabic numerals 57-63 in top RH corner.

Collation

Single leaf with stub facing upper board, a gathering of four leaves where the third is a stub, 18, 28 [2, 3, 6, and 7 are singletons], 3-78, a gathering of six endleaves, single leaf with stub facing board.

Black ink Roman numerals at the ends of quires 1, 2, and 7.

Layout

2 columns, c. 45 lines per folio, lines c. 4mm high, plummet-ruled. Ruled space: 200 × 120 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in protogothic or early gothic textualis.

Decoration

Green, red, blue Arabesque initials c. four lines high at major divisions, for example fol. 1r or 11v. Green, red, blue, or brown smaller initials throughout. Initials of both types sometimes missing or unfinished.

See also Pächt and Alexander iii. 283).

Binding

s. xiii2

235 × 10 × 35 mm.

Endleaves: At the front, one partial non-fragment singleton, around three quarters of the width of the upper board, preceded by a stub; followed by fragments from two different manuscripts bound as if a quire of 4 with the third leaf a stub At the back, the final leaf of the last quire is blank; followed by three fragment folios rotated 90 degrees and folded in half as if in a quire of 6; followed by a singleton and a stub, between which sits a small loose piece of parchment.

Sewing: Sewn at four sewing stations (measured in mm): 5, 35, 90, 135, 185 from the top of the spine.

Boards: Wooden boards around 7mm thick, including cover. The sewing supports enter the boards through tunnels in their spine edge. Boards are bevelled and do not protrude beyond the bookblock.

Endbands: Braided light brown leather endbands.

Cover: Whittawed leather cover. Turn ins mostly pared, with lapped mitres at every corner apart from tongued mitre at top corner of lower board.

Fastenings and furniture: Remains of a leather strap (brown, 16mm wide) and two nails (one with head intact) at the centre of the foredge of upper board, with corresponding hole approximately at the centre of the lower board, both for a clasp.

Chaining: No evidence of chaining.

History

Origin: c.1200 ; English (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Osney Abbey: fols. ii and iv contain two (slightly imperfect) 13th cent. Latin lists of charters and groups of charters of property belonging to Osney abbey, and the ‘.D.’ on fol. iv verso is probably an Osney mark. In a similar hand to that of the second list is a title 'prima pars maiorum sacramentorum Hugonis de Sancto Victore', and a partly erased inscription probably implying that the volume belonged to Oseney. '...... ⟨ex⟩ dono Ricardi de Wrthe canonici nostri', about 1235, for Richard became abbot of Dorchester in 1236.

Windsor, collegiate chapel: pressmark ‘OK’, fol. iv verso. Medieval binding, no chain mark. (MLGB3)

'Thomas Breson', early 16th cent., on the inner front board.

'Thomas Clarke', 16th cent. (fol. iv), to whom the motto 'Aρκει σοι ἡ χάρις μου' [II Cor. 12.9] on fol. 1 may belong.

'Sum John Dauies 1601 ex dono Jo. Price' (fol. 55v, cf. ivv).

'D. D. Bibliothecæ Publicæ Oxon. Jo. Dauis S. Th. Doctor Ap. 22º 1616.'

MS. Bodl. 477 - endleaves (fols. ii and iv)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

List of charters pertaining to Osney Abbey, Oxfordshire.

Discussed in H. E. Salter, Cartulary of Oseney Abbey (Oxford: The Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society, 1929), vol. 1, p. x.

Physical Description

Support: parchment
Fragment, as one bifolium in first endleaf quire.
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 155 mm.

Layout

2 columns (except for fol. iir, which has one column). Lines height: 5mm

Hand(s)

Cursive script with some Anglicana features.

Decoration

Fol. iir: Main text in red, with two-colour (green and red) initials, and black numbering in the inner margin.

Fol. iiv: Rubricated initials.

History

Origin: c. 1200. ; Osney Abbey

MS. Bodl. 477 - endleaves (fol. iii)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Missal
Incipit: misit me pater
Explicit: doce facere uoluntatem

Sections of masses for the Saturday of the fourth week of Lent, and Passion Sunday, probably Sarum.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Fragment as a single leaf.
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 155 mm.

Layout

Written space: 175 × 85 mm. Margins of 10mm at the top, 45mm at the bottom, 25mm at the spine, and 50mm at the foredge. 26 written lines on recto with 5.5 lines of chant, 27 on verso with 6 lines for chant. Line height (in main text): 6mm

Hand(s)

Written in a protogothic or early gothic textualis script.

Musical Notation:

Gaps left for notation.

Decoration

Gaps left for initials, 2 lines high, at the start of sections of the mass that are not chant (also at the start of the introit for Passion Sunday).

Additions:

Some faint plummet notes in an Anglicana hand

History

Origin: s.xii2, possibly s.xiiiin.

MS. Bodl. 477 - endleaves (fols. 57–62)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Compilation of sermons on judgement
(fols. 59ra1-59ra29; 60va1-60va19; 59rb1-59rb29; 60vb1-60vb16)
(attrib.) Augustine, De Rectitudine Catholicae Conversationis Tractatus
Incipit: In hac vita praesenti positi
Explicit: semper in saecula saeculorum
(fols. 60vb17-60vb19; 59va1-59va21)
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones in Cantica Canticorum Sermo XVI
Incipit: Pensa cuius sit formidinis et horroris
Explicit: conbustione et cibus ignis
(fols. 59va22-59va29; 60ra1-60ra19; 59vb1-59vb29; 60rb1-60rb6)
Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in eremo, sermo LVIII
Incipit: Itaque o anima quaecumque
Explicit: hoc firmiter possidebitis
(fols.60rb7-60rb19; 61ra1-61ra29; 58va1-58va19; 61rb1-61rb18)
Augustine, De scripturis, Sermo XVIII
Incipit: Quicquid ergo homo facit modo
Explicit: quasi feceris quo uoluisti
(fols. 61rb19-61rb29; 58vb1-58vb19; 61va1-61va29; 58ra1-58ra19; 61vb1-61vb29)
Augustine, De scripturis, Sermo XXII
Incipit: Quid ergo facimus
Explicit: pugnantem non captum et addictum
(fols. 58rb1-58rb19; 62ra1-62ra5)
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones in cantica canticorum, Sermo LXXIII
Incipit: fiant, propriae iustitiae non fidentes
Explicit: tuam filio regis
(fols. 62ra6-62ra29; 57va1-57va5)
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones de diversis, Sermo XII
Incipit: Nouissima hominis quae sunt
Explicit: et stridor dentium
(fols. 57va6-57va19; 62rb1-62rb5)
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones in cantica canticorum, Sermo LXXV
Incipit: Si per bona opera
Explicit: in celis sunt pacificauit
(fols. 62rb6-62rb29; 57vb1-57vb19; 62va1-62va4)
Baldwin of Forde, Tractatus diversi, Tractatus decimus
Incipit: Fortis est ut mors dilectio
Explicit: ad uitam ingredi
(fols. 62va4-62va13)
Baldwin of Forde, Sermo 11.19
Incipit: Pone me signaculum super cor tuum
Explicit: me propter te

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Fragment as a quire of six; fols. 57v, 58r, 58v, 60r, 60v oriented head to gutter. Fols. 59r, 59v, 61r, 61v, 62r, 62v oriented tail to gutter.
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 160 mm.

Layout

2 columns.

Fols. 59r, 59v, 61r, 61v, 62r: ruled space 160 × 140 mm. 7mm between columns, and margins of 25mm at the top of the leaf, 40mm at the bottom, and 65mm at the foredge.

Fols. 57v 58r, 58v, 60r, 60v, 61r: ruled space 160 × 90 mm. 7mm between columns, and margins of 25mm at the top of the leaf, 40mm at the bottom, and 20mm at the foredge. Line height: 5mm.

Hand(s)

Written in a formal Anglicana script

Additions: A number of annotations throughout the fragment leaves, in a roughly contemporary hand. Significantly more annotation at fol. 60r.

History

Origin: s.xiv1 English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (April 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , III (1973), no. 283 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition, endleaves]

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2020-04-14: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.