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

MS. Auct. F. 2. 7

Summary Catalogue no.: 4030

Contents

(fols 1, 7-8, 14-15, 20-21)
Virgil, Aeneid

Fragment, comprising Book V.83-VII.195, with glosses and the ten-line metrical summary of Book VI

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
Extent: i + 22 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 12 × 8.625 in.

Condition

Imperfect at both ends

Layout

40-50 lines per page. Written space: 208 × 85 mm.

Additions: Frequent interlinear and marginal glosses, mostly one-word lexical information

History

Origin: 15th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton (d. 1670).

Bought, along with most of Hatton’s collection, in 1671 by the Bodleian Library from London bookseller Robert Scot (who had purchased it from the Hatton family itself).

Record Sources

Description adapted (January 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1937) and Christopher Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 306

Last Substantive Revision

2025-01-28: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)