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MS. D'Orville 209

Summary Catalogue no.: 17087

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Augustine, Contra academicos
Rubric: Aurelii Augustini contra Achademicos incipit liber primus ...
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 45v)
Augustine, De beata uita
Rubric: Aurelii Augustini de Vita beata liber incipit
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 61)
Jerome, Vita S. Malchi monachi captiui
Rubric: Relatio Hyeronirni presbiteri de captiuo monaco
Incipit: Qui nauali prelio dimicaturi sun
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 66v)
Life of St. Mary the Egyptian
Incipit: Fuit senex in Palestinae monasteriis

Ends 'quia non pro humana ac uana gloria a me hoc fit' in Chapter II

(Not the same as the text printed in Migne's Patrologia Latina tom. 73, col. 671 and the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum under April 2)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 72 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.75 × 5.625 in.

Condition

Imperfect at end

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 237)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 237, Pl. XXI, no. 237, fol. 66v, the letter 'F'

Fine initials

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italy, Tuscany

Provenance and Acquisition

An erased inscription on fol. 1 seems to be 'Ex libris Card....... villæ' (16th century?)

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

Record Sources

Description adapted (February 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 88
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 89

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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