MS. Bodl. 582

Summary Catalogue no.: 2204

Language(s): Latin

Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Rubric: Expositio Ieronimi in Ęcclesiasten

(fol. 52v)

Theological notes

Rubric: Quedam exposiciones in theologia

Incipit: Sexto die formatur homo

(fol. 59)

Rubric: De nominibus Hebraicis interpretationes

Incipit: Adonay in Latinum dicitur Dominus

Based on the first eight chapters of the second book of the Instructiones of Eucherius, but fuller.

There are 13th, 14th, and 15th cent. lists of contents on fol. 1v and the outer covers: and some theological notes written with a metal stilus on fols. 64v-6.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 67 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 11 × 7 in.

Decoration

Fine initials. By the same hand as London, B.L., Cotton MS. Caligula A. VIII. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 101, pl. X)

Binding

Contemporary binding of white leather on boards. Tabs with traces of colour woven fabric. Later title in red. Book-markers.

History

Origin: 12th century, second quarter ; English, Ely, cathedral priory

Provenance and Acquisition

Ely Cathedral: pressmark 'M. 23'.

Erased 15th-century ex libris, fol. 1.

Windsor, collegiate church.

Presented by the Dean and canons of Windsor in 1612.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Jan. 2021) from the following sources:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 101 [decoration, origin, date, binding, provenance]

Summary Catalogue (1922)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 257

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 258