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MS. Marshall 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 5265

Contents

Jerome, Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum
Incipit: Philo vir disertissimus Iudaeorum
Incipit: (fol. 2vb) Adad precipuus, Aethiopiam tenebras
Explicit: [Ezekiel] Regina malitia queppiam
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 42 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c. 295 × c. 190 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 23 lines; ruled space c. 210–15 × 145 mm. (to inner bounding lines)

Hand(s)

Caroline minuscule by several hands.

Decoration

Initials highlighted in red.

Binding

Carolingian (contemporary (?)) limp binding of thick tawed leather, described by J. Vezin, 'Une reliure carolingienne de cuir souple (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Marshall 19)', Revue française d'histoire du livre, 36/3 (1982), 237-241.

History

Origin: 9th century, first half ; Eastern France (?) (according to Bischoff)

Provenance and Acquisition

Benedictine abbey of St. Médard at Soissons: fol. 1v, late 9th century (Bischoff) or 10th century (?) (Barker-Benfield): 'Hunc librum Teutbertus leuita dominis suis sancto Medardo et Sebastiano obtulit' (repeated, fol. 1, 11th century (?) (Barker-Benfield)). 'Teudbertus de ethimologiis quarundam parcium' appears on fol. 1, 12th century (Barker-Benfield), repeated with the variant Theudbertus on the outer front cover.

Abbey of St. Aldhelm at Malmesbury: 'Hunc quicunque librum Aldelmo depresseris [sic for deprenseris] almo | Dampnatus semper maneas cum sorte malorum' (fol. 1, 10th century, second half (Bischoff) or late 10th/early 11th century (Barker-Benfield)).

St. Augustine's, Canterbury: 'Di(stinctio) xi. Gra(dus) i. ret (rors) (?)us, liber sancti Augustini Cantuariensis' (fol. 1r, late 13th or early 14th century (Barker-Benfield)).

Thomas Marshall: the autograph 'Tho. Mareschallus' appears twice on fol. 1.

Bequeathed by him and received in 1689 or 1690.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Nov. 2021) by Matthew Holford from the Summary Catalogue, with additional physical description and additional reference to published literature as cited.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 996

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-11-10: Description revised with reference to manuscript and published literature.