MS. Bodl. 707
Summary Catalogue no.: 2608
Contents
With prologue to Marinianus (fol. ii verso)
Fol. 91v: 'Incipit liber secundus Omeliarum ... in extremam partem Ezechielis prophetę. (quę sunt) numero decem'
Physical Description
Condition
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander i. 445, pl. XXXVI
One fine initial
Many good initials
C. R. Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination, 1066-1200 (Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 117, identifies MS. Bodl. 707 as one of a group of Exeter manuscripts from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries which are illuminated in the 'Carilef' style that is associated with the Norman books given to Durham by William of St Carilef, e.g. the Carilef Bible (Durham Cathedral Library, MS. A. II. 4). The other manuscripts from Dodwell's group are MS. Bodl. 301, MS. Bodl. 783, and MS. Bodl. 813 [NB: Dodwell lists MS. Bodl. 701 but must have intended MS. Bodl. 707]
Pächt and Alexander note similarities to Durham Cathedral Library, MS. B. III. 16 (digitised) and to related manuscripts from Jumièges, St. Ouen, Rouen, and Bayeux. Perhaps written by Normans in England
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: "Iste est liber Ecclesie Cathedralis Exonie" (s. xiv); catalogue of 1327 (MLGB3)
Presented by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter in 1602
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-01-30: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)