Volume 2

A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

  • Bodleian Library.
Date:
1895-1953
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Credit: A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that the Calendar at fol. 40 was copied from one written at St.Omer or St. Bertin ). [Ff.ii + 88 + ii. Art. i is from the year 229 of Diocletian^ i. e. A.D. 513. Under 14. note also Brigid (Feb. i), Patrick (Mar. 16—so Toni). Under 13 May S. Mary = S.M. ad Martyres, and 7 Mar. should be 7 Jun. By the 2nd hand are also obits of the monastery’s priest, Aiulfas (Jul. 30), and its prior, Plugo (Aug. 2)—? Hugh, prior of Winchester (fin 1120-26), 27 was composed in 616 or 617—see f. 71 at top. In its colo- phon, read Rsegenboldus, after pentonia add ‘ civitate ’ (erased), and for ‘ item pro Baernini ’ read ‘ et pro Baernini svu patrem ’. In 30. original ‘ magna- nime ’ is corrected in browner ink : at end ‘ viii nonasinca fo ’ = 98 ff. showing the loss of a preliminary quire. My notes in the official copy contain many things of importance which cannot be given here. E. W. B. N.] 1665. 1479 (95) = Qu. Catal. ix(Digby), no. 64* (Galfridus de Vinosalvo, &c.). 1666. 1446 11 yy ,, „ 65* (Poemata varia). 1667. 1585 ( 201)= „ yy „ „ 66* (Concilium Basiliense, &c.). 1668. 1477 (93) = J, yy „ ,, 67* (astrologia, &c.). [Correct to Albubery Arazi under 8, and to ‘horesten under 18. E. W. B. N.] 1669. 1424 (40) = Qu. Catal. ix (Digby), no. 68* (Tabulae astronomicae). 1670. M 00 0 (96)= „ J? yy }> 69* (medica). 1671. 1421 (37) = >> yy ,, „ 70* (Roger Bacon). 1672. 1452 (68) = „ yy „ J) 71 (alchemica). 1673. 1526 (142) = „ yy „ >,72* (astrologica). 1674. 1474 (90) = » n yy ,, ,, 73 (medicinalia). 1675. 1580 (196) = ,, yy ,, „ 74* Gerardus Carmonensis, &c.). 1676. 1584 (200) = „ yy yy V >5 75* (medicinalia, &c.). 1677. 1419 (35) = n yy yy ,, >5 76 (Roger Bacon, &c.). 1678. 1420 (36)= „ yy yy 55 77* (Roger Bacon, Grosseteste, &c.). [Unde: r I. for Plenus-Amoris read ‘plenus amoris’. E. W. B. N.] 1679. 1417 (33) = Qu. Catal. ix (Digby), no. 78 (Johannes Boccacius). 1680. 1447 (63) = M 79* (medica). 1681. 1472 (88) = „ „ „ „ „ 80 (B. N. 5 : Cicero). 1682. 1576 (192) = ,y ,, „ ,5 j, 81* (mathematica, chronologica, &c. : a note in the official catalogue states that the tables in art. 12 were probably written about A. D. 990). [They were written in the period 987 to 1006, and were in use 993. On f. 134 some neums have been added, in different ink and not earlier than the i ith c, E.W. B. N.] 1683. 1442 (58) = 1684. 1411 (27) = 1685. 1572 (188) = 1686. 1579 Q95) = 1687. 1453 (69) = Qu. Catal. ix (Digby), no. 82* (historica). ,, j, „ ,, ,, 83* (de ratione sphaerae). „ „ „ „ ,,84* (Albertus Magnus). ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 85 (medica). „ ,, „ „ ,, 86* (Gallica et Anglica varia: a note in the official calendar endeavours to fix the date of writing as between 1272 and 1283). [77. ends with ‘ Edwardus filius eius x ’, where ‘ f. e. x. ’ is over an erasure, and not by the original scribe. It is at the end of this p. (not p. 206'^) that the scribe records the time he took in writing the MS. This is clearly the end of the original book (as well as that of a gathering), and