Jerome, Jerome (?), Ps.-Jerome, Hugh of St.-Victor — 12th century, second half; English
MS. Fairfax 5
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Description
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Title
Jerome, Jerome (?), Ps.-Jerome, Hugh of St.-Victor — 12th century, second half; English
Shelfmark
MS. Fairfax 5
Date
12th century, second half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 262)
Provenance
Sweethart Or New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: 'Liber domine Devorgoyl de Bayll[iol]', s. xiii. 'Liber sancte Marie de dulci corde.' (s. xiii/xiv). Inscr. on fol. 9v below the table of contents, s. xiii. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
'Liber C. Fairfax Emptus apud Edinburgh 1652' (fol. 9v). (MLGB3)
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Title
Five treatises of st. Jerome
Shelfmark
MS. Fairfax 5
Summary
Five treatises of st. Jerome:
De Hebraicis questionibus (fol. 1)
De mansionibus filiorum Israel (fol. 21v)
De locis in Genesi (fol. 30v)
De interpretationibus Hebraicorum nominum (fol. 50v)
De hebraicis questionibus in Samuel et Paralipomena (fols. 80, 95v)
Followed by Hugh of St. Victor on the Sacraments (fol. 112) in a slightly later hand.
Date
Written in the 12th century in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with illuminated capitals. Fols. 50v-end are in double columns
Physical extent
153 Leaves
Custodial history
A former flyleaf (fol. 9) has a late 13th-cent. table of contents followed by 'Liber domine Deruorgoye de Bayll[iol]', 'Liber sancte Marie de dulci corde' (contemporary), and 'Liber C. Fairfax emptus apud Edinburgh 1652', for which cp. fol. 1. The volume thus passed from the lady Dervorguilla to her foundation of Sweetheart in Galloway.
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Collection contents
Five treatises of st. Jerome
