MS. Auct. T. 1. 23
Summary Catalogue no.: 20630
Contents
Language(s): Latin
, Historia adversus paganos
Preceded by argumentum and prefatory letter to bp. Augustinus.
(fol. 206v)
Rubric: Nomina ciuitatum Gallię
Incipit: In Italia. Roma. Rauenna
Incipit: Prima Prouincia Lugdunensis habet ciuitates numero v
(fol. 207v)
Rubric: Fulconi scolastico humilis frater Stephanus
Incipit: Questiones quas magnitudo uestra
A letter on theological questions.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 208 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 195 mm.
Layout
1 col., 25-6 lines, written space 215 × 135 mm.
Decoration
Good initials. (P&A i. 438, pl. XXXVI)
Colour-washed interlace initials, coloured initials, rubrics.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Written at the Benedictine abbey of St Vincent by Ulricus and Rodulfus under Abbot Folquin, c. 1048-78 (inscription, fol. 1).
Paris, Jesuit college of Clermont: inscription, fol. 1, 18th century.
Clermont sale catalogue, 1764, no. 639.
Purchased by Gerard Meerman, 1722-1771.
His son, Jan Meerman, 1753-1815.
His sale, 1824, lot 52; purchased by the Bodleian.
Record Sources
Description adapted (2018) from the following sources:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 63 [physical description, origin, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 438 [decoration]
Summary Catalogue (1897) [contents, provenance]
