A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 130

Summary Catalogue no.: 19116

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Gregory the Great, Dialogues

With prologue and capitula.

Final rubric: Explicit dialogus beati Gregorii Sancte Romone (sic) ecclesie antistitis
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 125)
Peter Damian, Apologeticum de contemptu seculi

With capitula.

Colophon: Finis hic est libri. sit laus decus illi, Frater V. scripsit, domino dictante magistro ; Non sine sudore. carne macerando vigore, Quem tu, pie Christe, facias in codice vite. Da, Deus eterni pro munere gaudia regni.
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 159)
Peter Damian, Vita Romualdi

With capitula and prologue.

Final rubric: Finito libro. referamus gratia Christo; Igitur queso ut quisquis meo legerit solatium mihi aput districtum judicem sue orationis impendat

Followed by scribal prayer for the scribe and the readers of the book.

Followed by a fragment (ch. 5) of the life.

Language(s): Latin

Added in another hand, nine verses on the death of 'Hisnardus pastor'.

Incipit: Annis ducentis prolapsis mille viginti
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
193 leaves

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 58)

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; Italian, North

Provenance and Acquisition

Ex libris of St Perpetua, fol. 2r, 14th century (the Benedictine abbey at Asti (?)). Shelfmarks J. 4, F. 26.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 58
H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854

Last Substantive Revision

2025-07: Encode all information in printed catalogues.