MS. Bodl. 717
Summary Catalogue no.: 2631
Contents
The whole treatise in eighteen books, with prologue
At fol. 227 is a marginal note 'hue usque emendatum est'
Physical Description
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander i. 441, Pl. XXXVI
Fine miniatures by Hugo 'pictor' with his self-portrait on fol. 287v with the title 'Imago pictoris & illuminatoris huius operis'
- Fol. v verso has a large figure of Isaiah seated within a Byzantine arch, with buildings of a city above.
- Fol. vi recto is a picture of Jerome writing the roll of his book and Eustochium receiving it, each under a Byzantine arch.
- fol. vi verso is the Church (?) depicted as a female between Jerome as a scribe and Isaiah, with leonine figures above, and below a burial scene, with profusion of ornament forming an E
Fine historiated initia: fol. 2r represents Christ enthroned with Isaiah exhorting the people to turn to him ('Venite ascendamus ad montem Domini...'), the whole with lacertine ornament making up a V
Other initials chiefly in red, blue and gren
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: 'Liber Ecclesie Exoniensis de communibus' (s. xiv); cf. fol. vi verso (MLGB3)
Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (43 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-08-07: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)