MS. Lat. th. e. 38
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
, Sermon 230
Language(s): Latin
, Sermon 36 (P.L. 57 col.605–610, the text from ‘laetemur ergo’ to the end being that of the ‘Laurentiani fragmentum’)
Language(s): Latin
, Sermons 235, 236, 228, 272 (serm. 272 ends at P.L. 38 col. 1248 'non mysterium accipit pro se sed testimonium contra se')
Language(s): Latin
(p.32)
, De assumptione beatae Mariae uirginis (P.L.30 cols.122–142, cf.also D.C.Lambot, Rev.Bénédictine 46 (1934) pp.265–271) Language(s): Latin
(p.58)
Life of St. Katherine (BHL 1663) Rubric: Passio sancte Katerine virginis et martiris
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Secundo Folio: exitu migraturi sumus
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ix + 105 pages
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 155 mm.
Severely cropped by binder. Dimensions (written): 195 × 130 mm.
Collation
1(8)–6(8)(wants 8)
Layout
2 cols., 31 lines
Decoration
Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 275)
Gold initial (fol.1), the rest red and green, with large flourished initials at fol.32v and 58v
Binding
18th cent. calf binding with tooling similar to that of MS.Douce 89.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
David Swan, 1792 ('Bibliotheca Swaniana 1792' (p.viii)
Richard Howlett , 1889 (bookplate)
Sotheby's 26 Jan. 1959, lot 53, bought.
Record Sources
Typescript description by Bodleian library staff
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.