MS. Auct. D. 4. 13
Summary Catalogue no.: 2571
Physical Description
Binding
Whittawed leather over boards (period 3).
Accompanying Material
Fols. i-iii, endleaves, from a late 11th century MS. of Macrobius, Commentary on Somnium Scipionis, including the Mappa Mundia, and the end of a treatise of which the last words are: 'nec hunc in locum nisi multis exagitati saeculis reiciuntur [?]. Ille disce...solutus. Fol. iv, from a 13th century Latin hymnal.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Cerne, Benedictine abbey: 'Domus de Cerne', fol. 225
'Willelmus Blacker', fol. 62, 16th cent.; his name also on fols. 70v, 106.
Fol. 84: 16th-cent. pen-trial with the names Thomas Hardinge of New Sarum and John Lawrence of Tisbury.
Probably acquired by the Library between 1605 and 1611.
MS. Auct. D. 4. 13 – Part 1 (fols. 1–62)
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
History
MS. Auct. D. 4. 13 – Part 2 (fols. 63–128)
Contents
Physical Description
History
MS. Auct. D. 4. 13 – Part 3 (fols. 129–225)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
De principiis et partibus theologie
Distinctiones evangeliorum
Tabulae
See L. E. Boyle, in Medieval Learning and Literature, ed. J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson (1976), 379–97.
Later index, in a different hand.
Physical Description
Layout
Fols. 129–138v: 1 col., c. 40 lines when fully used, written space 170–80 × 85–110 mm.
Fols. 139–214: 2 cols., c. 42 lines when fully used, each column c. 80 × 60 mm.
Fols. 215v-216v: 3, 4 and 6 cols., c. 42 lines when fully used, overall written area c. 190 × 120 mm.
Fol. 218: irregular scrap.
Hand(s)
Holograph of Amaury de Montfort.
Decoration
Coloured initials.
History
Provenance
'Hoc opusculum...infra quadraginta dies resurectionis dominice. ex solo textu biblie sine copia scripture alterius breuiter compilaui. Anno incarnacionis dominice .mº. ccº. lxxvj vite mee .xxxiiij. in carcere et cathena.
Fols. 219–24 are a separate section.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-06-11: Description fully revised from Watson and Summary Catalogue.