A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Wood empt. 24

Summary Catalogue no.: 8612

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Augustine, De quantitate animae
Rubric: de quantitate anime
Incipit: Quoniam video te abundare otio
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 39)
Ambrose, De bono mortis
Rubric: de bono mortis
Incipit: Quoniam de anima sermonem
Language(s): Latin
3.
Ambrose
(fol. 67v)
De fuga saeculi
Incipit: Frequens nobis est de fugiendo seculo
(fol. 92)
De uirginitate
Rubric: sermo de viduis
Incipit: Nobile apud veteres

Ending abruptly, where some leaves have been torn out, at the end of Chapter XVIII

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 113 leaves. Stylus ruling fols 1–38
Dimensions (binding): 5.7 × 3.7 in.

Binding

White vellum on boards (17th-century work)

History

Origin: 12th century, late ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Durham, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert: Letter mark 'K' (fol. 1r)

'Poklyngton; (fol. ii recto), s. xiv ex. = ? William Poklyngton, monk of Durham (cf. Catt. Vett., pp. 39, 90 [or 40?], 212)

'liber dompni Iohannis [...] ex collacione domini Willelmi de Strygate capellani' (MLGB3)

Anthony à Wood: fol. i has the signature 'Anthony Wood'

Bought by the library in 1690

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1937)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2025-03-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)