Patristic, classical, and humanistic pieces. — c. 1500; English
MS. Barlow 14
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
From Medieval manuscripts in Oxford libraries
This is an extract only. For more information, see the catalogue record in Medieval manuscripts in Oxford libraries.
Medieval manuscripts in Oxford libraries contains descriptions of all known Western medieval manuscripts held in the Bodleian Libraries, and of medieval manuscripts in selected Oxford colleges. Learn more.
Title
Patristic, classical, and humanistic pieces. — c. 1500; English
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 14
Date
c. 1500
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Hands
English humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1170)
Decoration
Good border.
Good initials.
Binding
Blind-tooled brown leather with roll-produced border, early 17th-cent. English work.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Provenance
Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691
View full record in Medieval manuscripts in Oxford libraries
From Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts
This is an extract only. For more information, see the catalogue record in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts.
Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts contains descriptions of the Bodleian Libraries’ archival collections, including post-1500 manuscripts. Some manuscripts with records in other catalogues are also described here as part of a description of a larger archive. Learn more.
Title
Patristic, classical, and humanistic pieces
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 14
Summary
Patristic, classical, and humanistic pieces, written throughout by the same hand, with contemporary marginalia by a foreign scribe. The separate pieces are:
(fol. 1) Jerome's letter to pope Damasus, beg. 'Credimus in deum patrem'
(fol. 4) the 'Expositio simboli' of Rufinus Aquilegiensis, beg. 'Michi quidem'
(fol. 41) the prologue of the same to Pronianus concerning the translation of Gregory Nazianzenus, beg. 'Proficiscenti nihil'
(fol. 42v) a Latin translation of the Apologia of Gregory Nazianzenus, beg. 'Victus sum'
(fol. 90) Ambrose 'de cura pastorali', beg. 'Si quis fratres'
(fol. 101) Seneca 'de moribus', beg. 'Omne peccatum', followed (fol. 105) by Seneca's epitaph, beg. 'Cura labor meritum'
(fol. 105a) an undated letter from Domitius Veronensis [Calderini] to Giacopo Amanati, cardinal of Pavia, and another from the bishop of Verona to Celsus of Verona, canon regular of the Lateran congregation, dated at Venice, prid. Kal. Feb. 1471, followed by a treatise headed 'Celsi Veronensis ... dissuasoria ne Christiani principes ecclesiasticos vsurpent census, ad inclitum Venetorum senatum', beg. 'Solent complures' (fol. 106)
(fol. 128v) 'Questio disputata per dominum Celsum Veronensem ... videlicet An aliqua respublica possit conducere Judeos ad fenerandum sine peccato, et eciam an papa valeat concedere quod potest sine peccato fieri'
(fol. 139) a letter dated at Bologna, xii Kal. Feb., from Celsus to the cardinal of Pavia [Giacopo Amanati] concerning the death of the cardinal of S. Sixtus [ ? 1474]. The illumination seems to be by the artists who worked on MS. Hatton 10. On fol. 1 is a shield of arms: argent, on a bend sable three lozenges or, charged with three saltires gules.
Date
Written about 1520 in an italic hand
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, binding, blind-tooled brown leather with roll-produced border, early 17th-cent. English work, illuminated by a Flemish artist
Physical extent
144 Leaves
Custodial history
Though the scribe was trained in Italy, and the illuminator apparently in Flanders, the MS. had reached England by the reign of Edward vi (fol. 141v). Fol. 142v has 'Thomas Droke me possidet', and in pencil the names 'Seton, Watson, Sanderson' (all 16th cent.). There is a calendarial note of the 16th cent. in a foreign hand on fol. iii.
View full record in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts
Collection contents
Patristic, classical, and humanistic pieces
