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Summary Catalogue no.: 28962

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Vita Sancti Honorati archiepiscopi Arelatensis ( BHL 3976 )
Incipit: Cum dyabolus pronus et sollicitus humagni generis inimicus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: v + 76 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 110 mm.

Layout

26 lines

Decoration

Good initial (rubbed). Written with calligraphic flourishes, by Vincentius Marun at the college of St. Martial, in Avignon. (P&A i. 671)

History

Origin: 1449 ; French, Avignon

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 75v: 'Explicit uita beati honorati scripta per me dompnum Vincencium marum Religiosum studentem in collegio sancti marcialis auinione ob reuerenciam dicti sancti nec non domini burgensis Iacobi pharandis [corrected from pharandii?] auinione sui benefactorum singularissimi Anno domini millesimo cccc.mo xlix et finita et completa in prima ebdomada maij'.

Fol. iv, written over another name: 'f. G. Champeheuryoulx carme d'Orleans docteur et predicateur a Rouen 1599'.

Robert Le Tellyer, 1610, fol. 76.

John Calder, at Lisbon, Apr. 16 1766, who then presented it rev. Gavin Mitchell, minister of Kineller, fol. iii.

Purchased 1869.

Record Sources

Adapted (2017) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts; Pächt and Alexander; and the Summary Catalogue (1905).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 533

Bibliography

    A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 4
    Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 671

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.