MS. Bodl. 852
Summary Catalogue no.: 2611
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fifteenth-century table of contents; this shows that Passiones of SS. Paternus and Elphege formerly came between parts II and IV, and part III was then the last part. The detached section of the manuscript has been identified as the former London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. xviii fols. 1–27, of which only three damaged fragments survive.
Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Malmesbury Abbey: fol. 1, ‘Malmesbur’’, ‘xxxix’, 15th century. Perhaps already there by the 1125, when William of Malmesbury referred (in the Gesta pontificum to works which he may have known from this manuscript. (Thomson, ‘‘Scriptorium’ of William of Malmesbury’, p. 123)
‘Willelmus malmesbey fecit scribi istum librum’, fol. ii verso (a false statement)
Probably acquired between 1618 and 1620.
MS. Bodl. 852 – Part 1 (fols. 1–31)
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Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 27 lines, written space 155–60 × 100 mm.
Decoration
Good historiated initial and arched frame. (Pächt and Alexander i. 439, pl. XXXVI)
Coloured initials.
Rubrics.
History
Provenance
Fol. 31: list of the abbots of Jumièges in the hand of the original scribe, as far as Rotbertus, abbot 1049-c.1072. The names of two later abbots are added by two later scribes; the second, Ursus, was abbot from 1106, so the book must have remained at Jumièges until after that date.
MS. Bodl. 852 – Part 2 (fols. 32–67)
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
History
MS. Bodl. 852 – Part 3 (fols. 68–74)
Contents
BHL 5334, usually with Ps.-Jerome, De ortu beatae Mariae et de infantia saluatoris.
Physical Description
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
History
MS. Bodl. 852 – Part 4 (fols. 75–83)
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-05-10: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson, SC and Pächt and Alexander.