Language(s): Latin
(fol. ii recto)
List of contents, bound upside-down.
"|In hoc uolumine continentur hii libri. |Omelie Gregorii papae. super Iezechielem. |Item. Seneca de Beneficiis. libri .vii. |Item eiusdem de clementia. |Item eiusdem de quatuor uirtutibus. |Item. .............................."
(fol. v verso)
List of contents.
"|In hoc uolumine continentur ista |Gregorius super Iezechielem. omelie numero .xii. |Item Seneca de beneficiis. libri .vi. |Item de clemencia. |Item de .iiii.ºʳ uirtutibus principalibus. |Item .............................."
1. (fols. 1r–101r)
Gregory the Great,
Homiliae in Ezechielem Book 1
Rubric: Incipit prologus dilectissimo fratri mariano episcopo⹎ gregorius. seruus seruorum dei.
Incipit: Omelias que in beato ihezechiele[sic] propheta
Explicit: sine carne roborare. iesus christus dominus noster⹎ qui uiuit et regnat cum patre in unitate spiritus sancti deus. per omnia saecula saeculorum amen.
2. (fols. 101r–114v)
Seneca,
De beneficiis Rubric: Incipit seneca de beneficiis.
Incipit: Inter multos ac uarios errores
Alternate rubric in the margin (fol. 101r): Annei senece beneficiis uel liberalitate ad ebertium liberalem amicum suum liber primus incipit.
Explicit: Hoc est magni animi perdere et dare.
Final rubric: Explicit de beneficiis.
3. (fols. 114v–117r)
Seneca,
De clementia (extracts) Rubric: Incipit de clementia.
Incipit: Scribere de clementia nero caesar institui. ut quodammodo speculi uice fungerer. et te tibi ostenderem peruenturum ad uoluptatem maximam omnium. Facit quidem auidos nimia felicitas.
Explicit: Itaque penam quam exigere debet non donat. sed parcit. consulit. corrigit.
Final rubric: Explicit de clementia. deo gratias.
(fol. 117r)
Seneca,
De beneficiis,
6.11–13 (extract)
Incipit: Longa retro series ubi est quod consummat et res et animus.
Explicit: Quare pocius te mihi profuisse dicas. quam me tibi?
(fols. 117v–121r)
Martin of Braga,
Formula uitae honestae (extracts) Rubric: Incipit liber de quatuor uirtutibus principalibus.
Incipit: Quatuor uirtutum species multorum
Explicit: deficientem puniat ignauiam.
(fols. 121r–123r)
Proverbs of the Seven Sleepers, arranged alphabetically Rubric: Require in fine nomina septem sapientum. Hec sunt eorum prouerbia.
Incipit: Amans quod suspicatur uigilans somniat.
Explicit: Inseuitat culpam. qui peccatum preterit.
Final rubric: Hec sunt nomina septem sapientum. Tales milesius. Pitacus mictilenus. Solon ateniensis. Cilon Lacedemonius. Periandrus. chorintius. Cleobolus lidius. Bias pierenus;
(fols. 123v–124r)
Augustine,
De sancta uirginitate,
27–29 (excerpt)
Incipit: Pergite sancti dei pueri ac puelle. mares ac femine. celibes et innupte. pergite perseuerantur in finem.
Explicit: Vos ergo uos ite post eum uir||
Breaks off incomplete; possibly the erased item in the opening list of contents.
(fol. 124v)
Note on the vices and virtues of Mediterranean and northern European peoples
Incipit: Inuidia iudeorum. Fallacia grecorum. Vanitas africorum. Crudelitas hunorum. Stulticia saxonum.
Explicit: Duricia pictauorum. Vinolentia hispanorum. Egiptorum insolentia.
Final rubric: Viuite iuste uiuite continentur quia uix audet quisquam in illos excedere in quibus culpas non potest inuenire.
Form: codex
Support: parchment; some pages spattered with wax (e.g. fols. 71r–72r)
Extent: iii (17th-century paper endleaves, modern foliation i–iii) + 129 (foliated iv–vi, 1–126) + ii (17th-century paper endleaves, foliated 127–128) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 205 mm.
Collation
Quaternions except for fols. 121–124. Secundo Folio: me⹎ ipsum
Layout
Ruled in drypoint; 2 columns of 33 lines.
Hand(s)
Protogothic script; at least three hands.
Decoration
Opening initial in red (fol. 1r) with simple decoration; both this and the opening rubric highlighted with a pale yellow wash.
Coloured initials in red and blue.
Most tituli in red; some written with letters alternating between red and blue.
Additions: Additional accentuation and modifications to punctuation on many pages, often in darker ink, to make the text easier to read aloud. Probably contemporary with the original.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud.
Origin: German ;
12th century, end Provenance and Acquisition
William Laud, by 1633 (inscribed, fol. 1r).
Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.
