MS. Auct. D. 3. 15
Summary Catalogue no.: 2208
Contents
The Vulgate text of the four Libri Regum, with Jerome's preface and lists of chapters, and also a considerable number of glosses and explanatory notes. The first gloss is 'Helchanah possessio Dei interpretatur. Qui animi uirtute uir dicitur'. It is noted that the 1st book ('liber Samuelis primus') has 2,300 'versus' (fol. 66) and the 3rd 2,500 (fol. 199v). One of the finer illuminated capitals has been cut out (at fol. 2).
There is some scribbling, partly English, on foll. 252–3, and the end cover.
Physical Description
Layout
Many leaves in 2 cols.
Decoration
Good initials, partly mutilated. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 208, pl. XXI)
Binding
Original boards, recovered with red leather, Reading work, early 16th cent
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading Abbey: contemporary ex libris, 'Hic est liber sancte Marie de Radynga. Quem qui celauerit. uel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit'. Listed in the late-twelfth-century catalogue.
Presented by William Burdet of Sonning, in 1608.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-01-20: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC and Pächt and Alexander.