MS. Bodl. 678
Summary Catalogue no.: 2595
Physical Description
Decoration
Illuminated capitals
Binding
Medieval pink-skin binding; nail mark for strap fastening on back (MLGB3)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Dover, Kent, Benedictine priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Martin; cell of Canterbury cathedral priory: Pressmark: 'C 3 : VII : elucidarius folio .io . a. [below] excerpta de pluribus 42. a' (fol. ii verso, flyleaf), s. xiv. Below, almost obliterated: '... — clxxxiiii.'
At foot of fol. 2r: ': C [inscribed:] 3 : VII : Elucidarius ... ratur. Illa itaque [= 2o folio] ... 100 ... 2' (s. xiv) (MLGB3)
C.VII.3 in the Dover catalogue (James, ALCD, p. 452, no. 119, not identified by James) (MLGB3)
For details of the medieval catalogue, see item BM1.*119a in 'John Whitfield's catalogue, 1389'
Owned by Brian Twyne (MLGB3)
Presented to the Library by Thomas Twyne in 1612 (MLGB3)
MS. Bodl. 678 – Part 1
Contents
A theological treatise in three books
Fols 46v and 51v are blank
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 678 – Part 2
Contents
Extracts from Quintilian (fol. 52); Symmachus (fol. 54); Ennodius (fol. 56v); Cassiodorus (fol. 60); Cicero (fol. 64); Seneca the elder (fol. 70); Seneca the younger (fol. 71v); the Bible (fol. 80); Philo (fol. 84); Martin of Braga (fol. 84v); and Terence (fol. 91)
Some Latin notes are at fols i verso, ii, 85 verso, 100
Physical Description
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-04-14: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)