MS. Auct. F. 5. 16
Summary Catalogue no.: 2581
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History
Provenance and Acquisition
A parchment label with a late 14th cent. list of contents is now on p. 226
Worcester, Worcestershire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin: Bodleian, Auct. F. 1. 9, Auct. F. 5. 16 and Bodley 633 have been idenitified as Worcester books by the script of the parchment label of contents. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
[The earliest pagination of the volume seems to run: 23-134 (artt. 1-3), 201-246 (?) and 305-20 (arit. 4, 5), 567-88 (art. 6). Cr.]
Acquired by the Library probably about 1607.
MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – Part 1
Contents
One leaf is wanting, the place of which is taken (pp. 47-8) by part of leaf of a 14th cent. French religious poem about matrimony. Before this piece the pagination shows that eleven leaves are missing.
A long series of Latin proverbs and moral sayings, partly from Ovid and Horace. 'Versus differenciales' is the old title on p. 226.
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History
MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – Part 2
Contents
With some drawings of grotesques, and at end four lines on 'Phelip Seggebarwe', i.e. Sedgeberrow, in English: on p. 132 is written the beginning of a short analysis of the chapters of the Old Testament.
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History
MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – Part 3
Contents
Here without title or author.
Preceded by a few extracts from L. Annaeus Seneca, de moribus, etc.
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History
MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – Part 4
Contents
[Pp. 203-4 should come between pp. 172, 173, and the text ends at p. 202 'Phineas cum nepote Polidemonis' in lib. viii. It is without lacunae, but, as now bound, is interrupted after p. 173 by the interpolation of theological notes, beginning 'quidam literatus ut fertur legens in Scripturis' (pp. 179-90) and two blank leaves (pp. 191-4). Cr.]
With the preface to Gaudentius: unfinished (ending 'purgati: denique & hoc').
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History
MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – pp. 47-48
Contents
Lines 2216-2121, 2144-2144* (p. 48), 2166-2180, 2203-2217 (p. 47)
Part of a leaf, bound in sideways. From the same manuscript of the Manuel as the endleaves to Worcester Cathedral MS. Q.35, according to R.M. Thomson and Michael Gullick, A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library (2001)
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2 cols.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.