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

MS. Bodl. 678

Summary Catalogue no.: 2595

Physical Description

Composite: two parts
Support: Parchment
ii + 101 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 5.5 × 4.25 in.

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

(fol. 1)
Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius
Incipit: Sepius rogatus a condiscipulis

A theological treatise in three books

Fols 46v and 51v are blank

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century ; France (?)

MS. Bodl. 678 – Part 2

Contents

(fol. 52)
Classical and Biblical extracts
Rubric: Excerpta de pluribus

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

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century ; France (?)

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (April 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2023-04-14: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)