Hugh of St. Victor, (attrib.) Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, Baldwin of Forde — c.1200; English (?)

Title

Hugh of St. Victor, (attrib.) Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, Baldwin of Forde — c.1200; English (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 477

Place of origin

English (?)

Osney Abbey

s.xiv1 English

Date

s.xiv1

c.1200

c. 1200.

s.xii2, possibly s.xiiiin.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + iii + 56 + vi + i leaves.

Hands

Written in protogothic or early gothic textualis.

Decoration

Green, red, blue Arabesque initials c. four lines high at major divisions, for example fol. 1r or 11v. Green, red, blue, or brown smaller initials throughout. Initials of both types sometimes missing or unfinished.

See also Pächt and Alexander iii. 283).

Binding

s. xiii2

235 10 35

Endleaves: At the front, one partial non-fragment singleton, around three quarters of the width of the upper board, preceded by a stub; followed by fragments from two different manuscripts bound as if a quire of 4 with the third leaf a stub At the back, the final leaf of the last quire is blank; followed by three fragment folios rotated 90 degrees and folded in half as if in a quire of 6; followed by a singleton and a stub, between which sits a small loose piece of parchment.

Sewing: Sewn at four sewing stations (measured in mm): 5, 35, 90, 135, 185 from the top of the spine.

Boards: Wooden boards around 7mm thick, including cover. The sewing supports enter the boards through tunnels in their spine edge. Boards are bevelled and do not protrude beyond the bookblock.

Endbands: Braided light brown leather endbands.

Cover: Whittawed leather cover. Turn ins mostly pared, with lapped mitres at every corner apart from tongued mitre at top corner of lower board.

Fastenings and furniture: Remains of a leather strap (brown, 16mm wide) and two nails (one with head intact) at the centre of the foredge of upper board, with corresponding hole approximately at the centre of the lower board, both for a clasp.

Chaining: No evidence of chaining.

Acquisition

'D. D. Bibliothecæ Publicæ Oxon. Jo. Dauis S. Th. Doctor Ap. 22º 1616.'

Provenance

Osney Abbey: fols. ii and iv contain two (slightly imperfect) 13th cent. Latin lists of charters and groups of charters of property belonging to Osney abbey, and the .D. on fol. iv verso is probably an Osney mark. In a similar hand to that of the second list is a title 'prima pars maiorum sacramentorum Hugonis de Sancto Victore', and a partly erased inscription probably implying that the volume belonged to Oseney. '...... ex dono Ricardi de Wrthe canonici nostri', about 1235, for Richard became abbot of Dorchester in 1236.

Windsor, collegiate chapel: pressmark OK, fol. iv verso. Medieval binding, no chain mark. (MLGB3)

'Thomas Breson', early 16th cent., on the inner front board.

'Thomas Clarke', 16th cent. (fol. iv), to whom the motto 'Aρκει σοι ἡ χάρις μου' [II Cor. 12.9] on fol. 1 may belong.

'Sum John Dauies 1601 ex dono Jo. Price' (fol. 55v, cf. ivv).