Lives of Saints, Passio sanctorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli, Martyrium S. Petri apostoli, a Lino episcopo conscriptum, Martyrium S. Pauli apostoli [eodem Lino auctore], Passio sancti Andreæ apostoli, Miracula sancti Andreæ apostoli cum prologo, Passio sancti Iacobi apostoli, fratris beati Iohannis evangelistæ, Assumptio sancti Iohannis apostoli et evangelistæ, cum prologo, Passio sancti Bartholomæi apostoli, Passio sancti Matthæi apostoli, Passio sanctorum apostolorum Simonis et Iudæ [ex Africano fortassis excerpta], Passio sancti Thomæ apostoli, Passio sancti Iacobi apostoli, Assumptio sancti Philippi apostoli, Sermo in natali sancti Matthiæ legendus, Sermo sancti Augustini episcopi de omnibus apostolis, Passio sancti Marci evangelistæ, Bedae prologus in epistolam sequentem, Epistola aviti presbiteri (Luciani) de reliquiis S. Stephani, Inventio corporis sancti Stephani prothomartyris, Nichodemi, Gamalielis, atque Abibon, Relatio translationis corporis B. Stephani ab Hierosolymis Constantinopolim, Passio S. Vincentii, archidiaconi et martyris, Sermo S. Augustini in natali S. Vincentii martyris, Passio S.Hippoliti sociorumque eius, Sermo S. Fulgentii episcopi in natali S. Stephani, Homilia B. Maximi episcopi in natali eiusdem Stephani, Sermo S. Augustini episcopi de miraculis B. Stephani, Sermo B. Severini [sive Severiani] in natali Innocentum, Sermo B. Iohannis [Chrysostomi] de eisdem SS. Innocentibus, Eiusdem Chrysostomi sermo de eisdem SS. Innocentibus, Venerabilis Bedae homilia de eisdem — 11th century, end; France, North

Title

Lives of Saints, Passio sanctorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli, Martyrium S. Petri apostoli, a Lino episcopo conscriptum, Martyrium S. Pauli apostoli [eodem Lino auctore], Passio sancti Andreæ apostoli, Miracula sancti Andreæ apostoli cum prologo, Passio sancti Iacobi apostoli, fratris beati Iohannis evangelistæ, Assumptio sancti Iohannis apostoli et evangelistæ, cum prologo, Passio sancti Bartholomæi apostoli, Passio sancti Matthæi apostoli, Passio sanctorum apostolorum Simonis et Iudæ [ex Africano fortassis excerpta], Passio sancti Thomæ apostoli, Passio sancti Iacobi apostoli, Assumptio sancti Philippi apostoli, Sermo in natali sancti Matthiæ legendus, Sermo sancti Augustini episcopi de omnibus apostolis, Passio sancti Marci evangelistæ, Bedae prologus in epistolam sequentem, Epistola aviti presbiteri (Luciani) de reliquiis S. Stephani, Inventio corporis sancti Stephani prothomartyris, Nichodemi, Gamalielis, atque Abibon, Relatio translationis corporis B. Stephani ab Hierosolymis Constantinopolim, Passio S. Vincentii, archidiaconi et martyris, Sermo S. Augustini in natali S. Vincentii martyris, Passio S.Hippoliti sociorumque eius, Sermo S. Fulgentii episcopi in natali S. Stephani, Homilia B. Maximi episcopi in natali eiusdem Stephani, Sermo S. Augustini episcopi de miraculis B. Stephani, Sermo B. Severini [sive Severiani] in natali Innocentum, Sermo B. Iohannis [Chrysostomi] de eisdem SS. Innocentibus, Eiusdem Chrysostomi sermo de eisdem SS. Innocentibus, Venerabilis Bedae homilia de eisdem — 11th century, end; France, North

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 174

Place of origin

France, North

Date

11th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 164leaves

Hands

Folios 1-9 were replaced and other repairs were made in the fifteenth-sixteenth century

Decoration

Good initials on fols 10–161, e.g. fol. 39v

Binding

Brown morocco, gilt (early eighteenth century, French)

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

At the beginning and end, in ink, is an English bookseller's price: '£5. 5. –'

The manuscript is almost certainly identifiable with lot 1153 in the Brandersale of February 1790 ('Sanctorum vitae on vellum, Fol.') which Douce bought for £1. 2s. 0d. and described in his copy of the catalogue as 'very antient and curious'

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Title

Legendae Sanctorum, accounts of the lives and deaths of Saints

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 174

Summary

The first nine leaves are supplied in a 15th cent. hand, fol. 1 being a table of contents.

Date

written in the second half of the 11th cent. in France (?)

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with illuminated capitals

Physical extent

164 Leaves