Rabanus Maurus — Multiple dates; French
MS. Douce 192
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Rabanus Maurus — Multiple dates; French
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 192
Date
12th century, second half
addition, 1456
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iv + 64leaves
Decoration
Fine miniatures and coloured figures. Miniature of book presentation added in 1456.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
Book of praise
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 192
Summary
'Incipit liber Rabani [Mauri] in laude sancte Crucis mirabiliter editus', with the usual figures, but here with the poems which are with the figures separately repeated, at fol. 44. Fols. 1 - 2 are additions written early in the 15th. cent., and contain 'Rabanus [Maurus] de diuersis figuris. Intercessio Albini pro Mauro', a Latin poem, beg. 'Sancte Dei presul': and praise of the pope in another poem, beg. 'Sedis apostolice princeps', with a picture of Rabanus presenting his volume to pope Gregory.
On fol. 3 'Hune presentem librum nobis fratribus sancte Crucis sub regula beati Augustini Parisius in La Bretonnerie vico nuncupato Domino famulantibus ... magister Iohannes Le Begue ... regis Franeorum secretarius ... donauit ... Anno Domini millesimo. Cccco. lvjo ante Festum sancti Michaelis archangeli ...', cf. fol. 51v: marked '8. B' in the library: 'Ex bibliotheca S. Crucis Parisiensis 1624': the arms and motto of the Priory are still preserved from the 17th cent. binding, inside the modern covers.
Date
written in the 13th cent.
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with coloured figures
Physical extent
64 Leaves
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