John Cassian, Jerome, Paphnutius — 13th century, beginning; Italian Santa Maria della Sambucina: A. M. Adorisio, Codici latini calabresi (1986) concludes that this was made at and for the monastery of Sambucina by a named scribe who is also very likely the same scribe as one of a document dated 1209.

Title

John Cassian, Jerome, Paphnutius — 13th century, beginning; Italian Santa Maria della Sambucina: A. M. Adorisio, Codici latini calabresi (1986) concludes that this was made at and for the monastery of Sambucina by a named scribe who is also very likely the same scribe as one of a document dated 1209.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 158

Place of origin

Italian Santa Maria della Sambucina: A. M. Adorisio, Codici latini calabresi (1986) concludes that this was made at and for the monastery of Sambucina by a named scribe who is also very likely the same scribe as one of a document dated 1209.

Date

13th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 513)

Binding

13th century, early, for Cistercian abbey of Sambucina, Calabria (as MS., its scribe named on back paste-down): wood boards, flush with textblock; brown leather, each cover blind-tooled with single or double lines in lozenge shapes to link lines of 3+5+3+5+3 small circular bosses, all lost; 4+6+4 studs on the edge of each board, some surviving; two clasps with leather straps, all lost; spine cross-hatched with single blind lines and added gilt horizontals. Gilt green-leather title label and (?) leather repairs, 18th century, Italian; spine re-laid over new reback, 20th century, Bodleian. c. 373–375 c. 240–242 c. 62–65 (book closed).

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Cassianus

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 158

Summary

John Cassian, Collationes

Jerome, Vita S. Hilarionis

Paphnutius, Vita S. Onuphrii

Date

13th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume