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

MS. Auct. F. 5. 16

Summary Catalogue no.: 2581

Physical Description

Composite: at least four parts
Form: codex
Extent: ii + '23' - '228' pages
Dimensions (binding): 7.125 × 4.75 in.

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

1. (p. 23)
Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita metrica S. Mariae Aegyptiacae
Rubric: Vita sancte Marie
Incipit: Sicud hiemps laurum

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.

Language(s): Latin
2. (p. 52)
Proverbial compendium
Incipit: Venditur arbitrium dum vivitur ex alieno | Sumptu pane tuo vescere liber eris | Lector deciperis si mundi gloriam\gaudia/ queris | Es quod eram quod eris ego sum precedo sequeris

A long series of Latin proverbs and moral sayings, partly from Ovid and Horace. 'Versus differenciales' is the old title on p. 226.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; English

MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – Part 2

Contents

3. (p. 117)
Guido Vicentinus, Versus de Veteri et Novo Testamento
Rubric: Versus super notabilia Biblie [a later title on p. 226]
Incipit: Qui mundanam machinam potenter creasti
Incipit: Jesu qui de uirgine [p. 126, New Testament]

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.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; English

MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – Part 3

Contents

4. (p. 133)
Alberic of London (Mythographus Vaticanus III), Scintillarium poetarum
Incipit: Fuit in Egypto

Here without title or author.

Preceded by a few extracts from L. Annaeus Seneca, de moribus, etc.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; English

MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – Part 4

Contents

5. (p. 161)
John of Garland, Integumenta Ouidii
Rubric: Incipit Liber Integumentorum Fabularum a Johanne Anglico compositus
Incipit: Paruus maiori paret
Incipit: Macrobius in principio

[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.]

Language(s): Latin
6. (p. 205)
Ps.-Clement of Rome, Recognitiones
Rubric: Incipit Itinerarium Clementis

With the preface to Gaudentius: unfinished (ending 'purgati: denique & hoc').

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; English

MS. Auct. F. 5. 16 – pp. 47-48

Contents

William of Waddington, Le Manuel des pechiez

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)

Language(s): Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (Sept. 2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922), with additional reference to published literature as cited..

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.