MS. D'Orville 173

Summary Catalogue no.: 17051

Incipit: Bella p(er) ematíos plus q(uam) cíuilía campos

Explicit: Obsedít murís calcantem menía magnum;,. | Deo gratias Amen.

Preceded by a four-line epigram by Lucan: Corduba me genuit, rapuit nero, praelia dixi, | Que gessere pares hinc socer inde gener | Continuo nu(m)q(uam) direxi carmina ductu, | Que tractum serpant, plus michi coma placet

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 124 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10 × 7.375 in.

Catchwords: e.g. 'Non duro' (fol. 50v); 'Querit' (fol. 60v); 'Et renouare parans.' (fol. 100v)

Decoration

Illuminated initials, e.g. fol. 1r, with penwork

History

Origin: 15th century, early

Provenance and Acquisition

Abbey of St Gall. On fol. 123r 'Sancti Galli atque Othmari' (17th century). In the Catalogue of C. J. Strackhoven (Strackhovius) is a note 'a milite 1712 in bello Helvetico ex Abbatia St Gallensi surreptus', and a Lucan in 4° on parchment certainly occurs both in J. J. Scheuchzer's and H. Waser's catalogues of manuscripts removed from St Gall to Zurich and Bern in 1712 (F. Weidmann, Geschichte der Bibliothek von St. Gallen seit ihrer Gründung um das Jahr 830 bis auf 1841 (1841), pp. 428 n. 64, 437)

Burgerbibliothek Bern: printed stamp of the 'Bibliotheca Bernensis' on fol. 1.

The manuscript was certainly given to D'OrviIle by Johann Georg Altmann (professor and librarian at Bern) on 28 Sept. 1744: see Gaisford's catalogue

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751).

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/6–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Record Sources

Description adapted (February 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) with additional details from consultation of original

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 80

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-01-05: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)

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