1. (fol. 2)
Lactantius,
De ira Dei Rubric: ... Firmiani Lactantij De ira Dei incipit feliciter prohemium [&c.]...
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 26)
Lactantius,
De opificio Dei Rubric: Firmiani Lactantij De opificio Dei siue de hominis formacione feliciter incipit
Colophon: ... Liber explicit feliciter anno domini 1439
Preceded by two tables of contents
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 48)
Quintilian,
Institutio oratoria Rubric: Incipit Aratus de laudibus poetarum & oratorum
Incipit: Igitur ut Aratus ab Joue
A later title correctly notes that this is a fragment of Book 10: 'Fragmentum ex Xº [libro] Quintiliani de laudibus poetarum et oratorum'
Ends (some leaves being lost) 'iuuenis successerat subli'
Language(s): Latin
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 54 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.625 × 6 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 150 mm.
Collation
With catchword 'mis doctos'
Layout
32 lines per page. Written space: 140–145 × 90–95 mm.
Hand(s)
The whole manuscript is in the hand of Johannes Baerts (Watson [1984) who also wrote MS. Bodley 339, Magdalen College MS. Lat. 191 and New College MS. 219
Additions: Andrew Watson states that annotations '
passim are in
Andrew Holes's hand' (1984,
no. 683). Margaret Harvey is more specific, noting additions by Holes on fols 9v and 12v ('An Englishman at the Roman Curia During the Council of Basle: Andrew Holes, His Sermon of 1433 and His Books',
Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 42 [1991], p. 29). However, as David Rundle shows, there are several layers of correction, annotation and marginalia: the textual variants added by the main scribe throughout the manuscript, both between the lines and also in the margins; textual variants added by
John Burgh (in his characteristic spiky script) on fols 2r, 5v, 9v, 10v and 15r and a single correction by Andrew Holes of the contents list for
De opificio Dei on fol. 25r ('
Andrew Holes and John Burgh: Two Wykehamists, One Manuscript Collection',
New College Notes, 19 [2023], p. 10)
Provenance and Acquisition
The colophon by Johannes Baerts on fol. 47v gives the date '1439' (which would be during his time in Florence)
In 1549 the volume was in England (fols 44v, 51v)
Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755
