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MS. Holkham misc. 8

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Contents

1. (fols. 1–203)
Petrus Riga, Aurora,

preceded by his prose preface: 'Frequens sodalium meorum ...', and followed by his 'Recapitulatio: Principio rerum post quinque dies homo primus ...' (pr. Migne, PL, CCXII: 12)

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols. 204–214)
Text on arithmetic
Rubric: Petro magistro suo Teobaldus quod Eschines Socrati scilicet minimum quod ipse est
Incipit: Domine quinque talenta tradidisti mihi ... eademque recipere volentibus benigne distribuo
Explicit: qui numeris elementa ligas
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Pneuma super
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii (modern paper) + 214 + ii (modern paper) leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 275–80 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 200–5 × 100–5 mm.
Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil: i-ii, 1–216.

Collation

1(8)-17(8)catchwords of later quires cut off by binders

Layout

The main text written with 30–32 lines, above top line, in 1 column

the gloss written with 49–50 lines, also above

fols. 204r onwards written with 43 lines per page, above the top ruled line, in 2 columns.

Hand(s)

Written in good gothic bookhands, by at least three scribes.

Decoration

Red initials with some penwork.

Binding

Black leather over pasteboards; the upper cover stamped in gilt with the Coke crest; the spine lettered in gilt 'PETRI DE RIGA | AURORA | SEU | EXPOSITIO | HISTORICA | ET | ALLEGORICA | LIBRORUM | SACRÆ | SCRIPTIRÆ | VERSIBUS | ELEGIACIS | ET QUANDOQUE | LEONINIS | EXPRESSA' and, at the bottom, 'MS. | SÆC. XIII'.

History

Origin: Italian ; 13th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Given by Battista de Lignamine to the Canons of S. Giovanni in Verdara, Padua , in 1455 (inscription in red at the end of the text, fol. 214v, partly erased; cf. MS. Holkham misc. 6, etc.).

With the bookplate of ' THOMAS WILLIAM COKE ' (1754–1842); formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 420.

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff, revised by Peter Kidd, late 1990s

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.