A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Auct. E. 2. 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 3016

Book of Job with catena compilationIncomplete. Catena compiled, possibly by the scribe, from the types known as Γ and w, with material taken from a hitherto unidentified source.

Contents

1. (fols. 1r-75v)
Catena compilation commenting selected passages of the Book of Job.
Language(s): Greek

This compilation complements the commentaries contained in the current second part (fols. 76r-90v) of the manuscript.

2. (fols. 76r-90v)
Portions of the Book of Job (1,1-14,7) with marginal catena.
Language(s): Greek

This part of the manuscript was originally a late-11th-century copy of Job and glosses were added on the margin later. After space proved to be insufficient, additional leaves (fols. 6-75) were added to the volume for more glosses.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: oriental paper
Extent: 90 leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 244 × 177 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 190 × 140 mm.
Foliation: Foliated 1-90.

Collation

Folios 1-5 are remnants of the first two quires with lacunae after fols 2 and 5: iii 5 leaves (6 missing), iv 8 (8 missing), v-xii 8, xiii 8 (8 missing). The manuscript is incomplete at the end. Quires numbered on bottom left corner of the first recto.

Layout

One column. Ruling: 31–36 lines. Ruling type Lake I 10c.

Hand(s)

Text written probably by two scribes. A: fols. 76r–90v: biblical text, B: fols. 1r–75v, and the marginal glosses in fols 76r-90v.

Decoration

Titles and some initials in red.

Additions: 1 fol. 7r, in crayon, written apparently by a Latin hand, the word κατασταθἠση.2 fols. 48v, 62r, 70v, 71r Latin pen-trials by a 15th-century hand.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard.

History

Origin: 11th or 12th century ; Byzantine

Provenance and Acquisition

Used in Western Europe in the course of the 15th century. Cf. Latin notes and additions on ff. 7r, 48v, 62r, 70v, 71r.

Acquired about 1613-15.

Record Sources

Description based on a handwritten description by Nigel Wilson from the 1970's and the catena-edition Ursula and Dieter Hagedorn, Die älteren griechischen Katenen zum Buch Hiob . Band i : Einleitung , Prologe und Epiloge, Fragmente zu Hiob 1.1-8.22. Patristische Texte und Studien , 40. (Berlin / New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1994), 11 and 76-87. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110888287 Previously described fromthe Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima recensionem codicum Graecorum continens, Quarto Catalogues I, 1883, repr. with corrections 1969), 11, 76-87.

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-04-30: Updated from handwritten description by Nigel Wilson from 1970's and referenced edition by Hagedorn.