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

MS. e Mus. 112

Summary Catalogue no.: 3578

Contents

1.
Jerome, Commentary on St. Matthew
Language(s): Latin
2.
Anselm, treatises
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vi + 336 + ii pages
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 168 mm.

Layout

1 col., 30 lines, 173 × 100 mm.

Decoration

Fine initial (defaced). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 106, pl. X)

Binding

White leather on boards, with tags at top and bottom, chain-fittings and clasp gone.

History

Origin: 12th century (between 1108 and 1126) ; English, Bury St. Edmunds

Provenance and Acquisition

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Baldewinus prior sancti Edmundi fecit scribi hunc librum, in quo continentur. . .' (flyleaf, p. iii, s. xiv). 'J 13' (top right-hand corner of first leaf, p.1). Medieval binding (white leather over square boards; formerly one clasp, flaps projecting at head and foot of spine). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

John Parry, 1653–4. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources.

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.