MS. Bodl. 94
Summary Catalogue no.: 1904
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1.
Rubric: Hi sunt libri sanctę memorię Ambrosii episcopi et confessoris
(fol. 1)
De Isaac et anima (fol. 22)
De bono mortis (fol. 35v)
De fuga seculi (fol. 65v)
De Paradiso (fol. 94)
Epistola ad Vercellensem ecclesiam. 2. (fol. 109, after some blank leaves)
, Contra Jovinianum, in two books. This and the following article are in a slightly different hand from that of art. 1.
3. (fol. 159)
, Letters Five letters: the fourth (beg. 'Sane etiam hoc nouerit', fol. 164) is not known as Augustine's: the fifth (fol. 165) is usually printed as a sermon by him.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment, stained by damp at each end
Extent: ii + 168 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.375 × 6.875 in.
Decoration
Initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 460)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
For date and origin see Gneuss-Lapidge.
Exeter Cathedral: identifiable in catalogues of 1327 and 1507.
Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602 (Summary Catalogue I, p. 81).
Record Sources
Description adapted (March 2020) from the following sources, with reference to additional published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 460 [decoration, date, localization]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance, acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts : A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (2014), no. 544
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-15: Origin revised with reference to GL.