MS. Auct. F. 2. 14
Summary Catalogue no.: 2657
Contents
in two books each preceded by a list of chapters, and with two prefatory poems (begg. 'Domno pontifici VVentanam', 'Fratribus ęternę crescant') which themselves have metrical titles: the author's name is not mentioned. At fol. 49v the scribe has added one more miracle in rhythmical, not metrical, verse.
On the margin of fols. 11-19 is an alphabetical series of Old English glosses on Latin words in Aldhelm (printed in Napier's Old English Glosses, 1900, no. 18b), hardly later than the text, to which there are also four English glosses.
With Latin glosses and accentual marks of the 13th cent.
With some French and Latin glosses, and accentual and grammatical marks, of the 13th cent.
With preface
Preface in verse, followed by the prose preface and the Ars Phocae itself
With Latin glosses, and four English ones, printed as above (art. 1) no. 45.
A facsimile of fol. 106r is no. 9 in R. Ellis's Facsimiles (Oxf. 1891) and no. 12 in his Specimens of Latin Palaeography (Oxf. 1903).
Lines 4-19 are in a different hand from the rest of the book.
Two short poems:
Physical Description
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Decoration
Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 60)
Binding
White parchment on boards, clasps lost, English 15th cent. work, worn
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Sherborne, Benedictine abbey: "Marginal notes by Leland. He saw 'Vita Swithuni carmine heroico' at Sherborne (De Script. Britt. 164, Coll. 3. 255, 4. 150) and gives quotations in Collectanea 1. 149, evidently from this MS" (MLGB3).
Probably acquired about A.D. 1618-20.
MS. Auct. F. 2. 14 - endleaf (fol. i)
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Language(s): Latin
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MS. Auct. F. 2. 14 - endleaf (fol. v)
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Language(s): Latin
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MS. Auct. F. 2. 14 - endleaf (fol. 129)
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Language(s): Latin
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MS. Auct. F. 2. 14 - endleaf (fol. 130)
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Language(s): Latin
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Noted
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-10-13: Revised to incorporate all information in Summary Catalogue and Pächt and Alexander