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MS. Rawl. G. 29

Summary Catalogue no.: 14761

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Rubric: Incipit prologus beati Jeronimi presbyteri, in libro de Viris illustribus sic de Seneca scribit

Short pieces relating to Seneca are also found on fols fols 2, 2v and 88

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 1)
Ps.-Seneca; Ps.-Paul, Letters

The fictitious correspondence between Seneca and St Paul

Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 2v)
Seneca, Epistulae morales

Letters to Lucilius

Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 71)
Seneca, De clementia
Rubric: Incipit liber primus [&c.] Annei Lucii Senece de Clementia ad Neronem
Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 84)
Ps.-Seneca, Prouerbia
Rubric: Incipiunt Prouerbia Senece
Incipit: Alienum est quicquid optando euenit

In double columns, metrical, in alphabetical order

Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 89)
Cicero, De officiis

Imperfect at end, breaking off (some leaves being lost) after 'quibus rebus exculta hominum uita' in ii.4

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vii + 107 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10 × 6.75 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 506

Good historiated initials

Good other initials

History

Origin: c. 1200 ; France, North (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

'MS. Harbin,' Rawlinson's note [George Harbin]

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 345
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 346

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-07-26: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)