MS. Auct. D. 3. 12
Summary Catalogue no.: 2093
Contents
Leviticus with glossa ordinaria
At fol. iv is a list of the 90 chapters, and general prefaces. On fol. 100 is a list of Benedictions and 'Versus' 'in festiuitatibus. xii. lectionum', etc. (13th cent.)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 100 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.25 × 7.125 in.
Layout
3 cols.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 147)
Binding
Poor red leather on older boards, probably Reading early 16th cent. work, worn.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading Abbey: identifiable in the catalogue of 1192 (MLGB); ex libris, 'Hic est liber sancte Marie de Radingia. Quem qui celauerit. uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit,' 13th cent.
Presented by William Burdet of Sonning, in 1608.
Record Sources
Description adapted (May 2020) from the following sources with additional reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , III (1973), no. 147 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 371
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.