MS. D'Orville 209
Summary Catalogue no.: 17087
Contents
1. (fol. 1)
, Contra academicos Rubric: Aurelii Augustini contra Achademicos incipit liber primus ...
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 45v)
, De beata uita Rubric: Aurelii Augustini de Vita beata liber incipit
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 61)
, 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
Extent: i + 72 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.75 × 5.625 in.
Condition
Imperfect at end
Hand(s)
Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 237)
History
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)
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)