MS. Rawl. D. 112

Summary Catalogue no.: 12930

(fol. 1r–34v)

Rubric: The prologe in to þe lif of seynt Ierom . drawe in to englisshe . to the hye princesse Margarete duchess of Clarence

Incipit: ⟨R⟩ight noble & worthy lady and my ful reuerent & dere gostly dogugher in our lord iesu. I haue mynde hou on seynt Ieroms day

Explicit: if ye haue leiser to rede no moo attones

( capitula )

Rubric: The life of seint Jerom as it is take of legenda aurea

Incipit: ⟨S⟩eynt Ierom cam of noble kyn

Explicit: that here þis trompe and folewen therafter

Final rubric: Explicit.

IPMEP 567, (not this manuscript). Attributed to Wynter in Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS. 317 (G. Keiser in Yale University Library Gazette 60/1 (1985), 32–46, ). Critical edition, C. M. Waters (ed.), Virgins and Scholars (Turnhout, 2008), 178–275 (not this manuscript).

Language(s): Middle English

Followed (fol. 34v) by antiphon, versicle and response, and prayer to Jerome:

Incipit: Iste est qui ante deum magnas virtutes operatus est

Incipit: Amauit eum dominus & ornauit eum

Incipit: Stola glorie induit eum

Incipit: ⟨D⟩Eus qui nobis per beatum ieronimum confessorem sacerdotemque tuum . scripture sancte veritatem & mistica sacramenta reuelare dignatus es

Selected from the office for the vespers and feast of St Jerome; cf. Breviarium Sarum III. 878–9, 885 and II.421–2.

Language(s): Latin

Followed (fol. 34v) by two couplets (see Provenance; not in DIMEV):

Incipit: Mekely I you pray & w^t al myn hert beseke

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: temp(or)al vengh(e)ance

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii + 34 folios (with paper padding before and after)

Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 125 mm.

Collation

1(10)-2(10), 3(8), 4(6). Leaf signatures in the usual late-medieval form (a-d) sporadically visible; catchwords on fols. 20v, 28v.

Layout

Frame-ruled in crayon; written above top line; 1 col., c. 25–28 lines; written space c. 150 × 80–90 mm.

Hand(s)

Cursiva (secretary with some anglicana features) by one scribe.

Decoration

Spaces for initials left blank.

Rubrics underlined in red.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Mekely I you pray & w^t al min hert beseke | Praieth to god for me & to seynt Jerom eke | The writer of this thilk poure & simple h(?)⟨.....⟩ | That ilke wrecche & synful caytfyf man.’; erased name not legible under u.v.

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755.

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Record Sources

Description by Matthew Holford, November 2018. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 1, cols. 57–8

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 227