MS. Bodl. 636
Summary Catalogue no.: 2002
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Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
MS. Bodl. 636 – Part 1
Contents
Fifteen chapters.
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 636 – Part 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ten leaves are wanting after fol. 37.
Cf. Stegmüller, Bibl. 151,9 , , Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, c. 53(51) De passione domini.
Ends at the end of Pontius Pilate's letter 'gesta sunt de Iesu'.
A selection of Dicta Patrum: followed by a few clauses about benedictions and about heretics.
Followed by a passage from 'magister Robertus prior et solitarius super Apocalipsim' (Robert of Bridlington?) (fol. 139: beg. 'Sicut enim ebrius'), and other short theological notes (fol. 139v). Three leaves are lost after fol. 143.
Preceded by a prologue giving title and author, and Isidorus's preface to the reader: ends, near the end of the 2nd book, 'omnia mihi placent': about half a page has been written twice by an error, see fol. 154.
Migne's Patrol. Lat. xxii. 540): but there is some confusion in the text on fol. 182v and elsewhere: some theological notes follow, on fol. 187.
St. Thomas of Canterbury (six), st. Andrew (three), and for the five Feasts of the Virgin (fifteen).
Fols. 1, 133, 136, 154 are injured.
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History
Provenance
'Iste liber constat domino J. Peny, secundo folio bibisset', 15th cent. (fol. 224).
Presented by sir Walter Cope in 1602.
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2020-04-09: Revised to incorporate all information in SC.