Stephen Langton — 15th century; Germany
MS. D'Orville 204
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Stephen Langton — 15th century; Germany
Petrus de Rosenheim — 15th century, second half; Germany
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 204
Date
15th century
15th century, second half
Language
Latin
Contents
Support
parchment, paper
Physical extent
i + 135 leaves. The inner and outer sheets of each section (i.e. usually four out of every twelve leaves) are of parchment
Acquisition
Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804
Provenance
The library of the House of Orange-Nassau: recorded in the 1686 catalogue and included in the 1749 auction at The Hague (see A. D. Renting, A. S. Korteweg, et al., The seventeenth-century Orange-Nassau library: the catalogue compiled by Anthonie Smets in 1686, the 1749 auction catalogue, and other contemporary sources (Utrecht, 1993), p. 176 no. 452); bought by:
Pieter de Hondt (1696–1764), printer, publisher, and bookseller of The Hague.
Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)
Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent
Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent
Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian
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Title
'Interpretaciones nominum Hebraicorum [biblicorum] secundum ordinem alphabeti' metrical summary of the whole Bible
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 204
Summary
Made up of two MSS. Comprising:
(fol. 1) 'Interpretaciones nominum Hebraicorum [biblicorum] secundum ordinem alphabeti': beg. 'Aar. apprehendens vel apprehensio.'
(fol. 86) Colophon:― 'Deo gracias. Explicit Rosarius Biblie, vel Roseum Memoriale diuinorum eloquiorum. Composuit librum monachus Rosenhaym Petrus istum.' This is a metrical summary of the whole Bible, an elegiac stanza being appropriated to every chapter: by Petrus de Rosenhaym.
At fol. 84 the scribe has added a few short pieces, one a 'Lamentatio contra symonicos ... prelatos' beg. 'O curas hominum'), probably by Petrus Damianus.
The inner and outer sheets of each section (i.e. usually four out of every twelve leaves) are of parchment.
Date
written in the 15th cent. in Germany
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper and parchment, with illuminated capitals
Physical extent
135 Leaves
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Collection contents
Manuscripts of Jacques Philippe D'Orville
'Interpretaciones nominum Hebraicorum [biblicorum] secundum ordinem alphabeti' metrical summary of the whole Bible
