Berengaudus, John Chrysostom — 12th century, beginning; English, Canterbury (?)

Title

Berengaudus, John Chrysostom — 12th century, beginning; English, Canterbury (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 330

Date

12th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 173leaves

Decoration

Fine initial. Related in style to MSS. from Christ Church, Canterbury. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 70, pl. VII)

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Lessness Or Westwood, Kent, Augustinian abbey of St Thomas the Martyr: 'Hic liber est ecclesie beati Thome martyris de Liesnes. Quem qui ei abstulerit, aut illi super eo fraudem fecerit, nisi eidem ecclesie plene satisfecerit, anathema sit marantha'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Owned by ' Roger Twysden 27. Febr. 1635.'

Sir John Sebright (1767-1846): his sale, April 1807, lot 1216; bought by Douce for 10s. 6d. (Douce Legacy, no. 216).

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Title

Latin commentary on the apocalypse, with sermons

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 330

Summary

Comprises:

(fol. 1) A Commentary on the Apocalypse, by Berengaudos, or Berengoudas, whose name is given (see fol. 127) by combining the first letters of the seven divisions for the consonants, and assuming that the vowels with Greek values form together 81. Most of the text of the Apocalypse is introduced. The treatise has been ascribed to Berengarius of Tours and to st. Ambrose.

(fol. 129) '... Sermones Iohannis Chrisostomi de Laudibus Pauli.'

(fol. 153v) An anonymous sermon on Ps. xciii (xciv). 12: beg. after the text 'Homo enim cum sit rationalis.'.

Date

written in the second half of the 12th cent. in England

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with a few illuminated capitals

Physical extent

173 Leaves

Custodial history

'Hic liber est ecclesie beati Thome Martyris de Liesnes [Lesnes in Kent]. Quem qui ei abstulerit, aut illi super eo fraudem fecerit, nisi eidem ecclesie plene satisfecerit, anathema sit maranatha.' Owned by ' Roger Twysden 27. Febr. 1635.'.