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MS. D'Orville 204

Summary Catalogue no.: 17082

Physical Description

Composite, two parts: fols. 1- 85 || fols. 86–133
Support: parchment, paper
Extent: i + 135 leaves. The inner and outer sheets of each section (i.e. usually four out of every twelve leaves) are of parchment
Dimensions (binding): 8.75 × 6.125 in.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

The library of the House of Orange-Nassau: recorded in the 1686 catalogue and included in the 1749 auction at The Hague (see A. D. Renting, A. S. Korteweg, et al., The seventeenth-century Orange-Nassau library: the catalogue compiled by Anthonie Smets in 1686, the 1749 auction catalogue, and other contemporary sources (Utrecht, 1993), p. 176 no. 452); bought by:

Pieter de Hondt (1696–1764), printer, publisher, and bookseller of The Hague.

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 (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

MS. D'Orville 204 – Part 1

Contents

(fol. 1)
Stephen Langton, Interpretaciones nominum hebraicorum
Rubric: Interpretaciones nominum Hebraicorum secundum ordinem alphabeti
Incipit: Aar.[sic] apprehendens vel apprehensio

At fol. 84, the scribe has added a few short pieces, one a 'Lamentatio contra symonicos... prelatos' (begins ' O curas hominum') is probably by Petrus Damianus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; Germany

MS. D'Orville 204 – Part 2

Contents

(fol. 86)
Petrus de Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale diuinorum eloquiorum
Colophon: Deo gracias. Explicit Rosarius Biblie, vel Roseum Memoriale diuinorum eloquiorum. Composuit librum monachus Rosenhaym Petrus istum

A metrical summary of the whole Bible, an elegiac stanza being appropriated to every chapter

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i, list, p. 72:

Fleuronnée initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; Germany

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (February 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) with additional reference to published literature as cited.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 87

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-02-01: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)