Ps.-Augustine — 14th century, early; English
MS. Barlow 21
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ps.-Augustine — 14th century, early; English
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 21
Date
14th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Illuminated initals and borders.
Binding
Blind-tooled brown leather, 17th-cent. English work.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Provenance
Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691
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Title
A poem on the creation of the world and Augustine 'de imagine dei'
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 21
Summary
A. P. 1. A poem on the creation of the world, based upon the book of Genesis, in Latin hexameters with a marginal paraphrase, beg. 'Omnia disponens nusquam metam sibi ponens'. At p. ix is an auto-graph English translation of the prologue, beg. 'O boundlesse thou', by Sir Henry Spelman, dated Sept. 5, 1616.
B. P. 569. Augustine 'de imagine dei', beg. 'Tanta dignitas humane condicionis'.
Date
Written early in the 14th century in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, binding, blind-tooled brown leather, 17th-cent. English work, with illuminated initials and borders
Physical extent
576 pages
Custodial history
Page 1 (cf. p. 568) has 'Liber Henrici Spelman quondam Roberti Hare 1566', and p. iv 'Liber Tho: Barlow Coll. Reg. S[ocii] ex dono viri et amici integerrimi domini Clementis Spelman Henrici τοῦ μɑκɑρίτου filii et scacarii seu fisci regis baronis'. Barlow has also inserted a note on 'The much fam'd poem of du Bartas' (p. v), and added the date, apparently of acquisition, July 22, 1659 (p. vii). 'R. Fanshawe' is on p. v.
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Collection contents
A poem on the creation of the world and Augustine 'de imagine dei'
