DUL Add.MS. 1950/12Homilies (fragment)
Held by: Durham University Library: Additional Manuscripts

Single leaf from a large codex of Bede's Homilies (or Paul the Deacon's Homilary quoting Bede) written in the first half of the 12th century in Italy (Tuscany: Florence or vicinity). Subsequently this leaf was removed, folded and re-used as a pastedown and free endleaf for binding an unidentified volume of about 38 cm in height.

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1mbv73c0872.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 1 leaf
Size: 510 mm x 380 mm

Condition of manuscriptverso shows marks of use as a pastedown
Layout

Two columns. 48 lines

Script

Written in pre-Gothic minuscule

Decoration

Large initial H in yellow with red decorative infill, acanthus leaf foliage and large leaves in the compartments on a blue, red and green backgorund. Rubric titles.

Corrections and annotation

The leaf is now guarded into a separate cloth binding.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in Italy, Tuscany (probably Florence) , earlier 12th century.

Provenance

Owned by Aldo Olschki (1893-1963), whence sold to Bernard Rosenthal in 1959 (by whom numbered as I/76). In Quaritch catalogue 1088 Bookhands of the Middle Ages III (1988), lot 6. In the Schøyen collection as MS 84. Bought at the Bloomsbury Western Manuscripts Sale, London, 7 December 2021, Lot No. 24, Acc No Misc.2021/22:64

Manuscript contents
Modern title: Homilies (fragment)
Author: Bede,‏ ‎the Venerable, Saint,‏ 673-735
Incipit: ... Deum, dicentes: Quia propheta magnus surrexit in nobis. Quanto desperatior anime mors ad vitam revocatur
Explicit: Accepit autem omnis timor et magnificabant ...
Language: Latin

Leaf contains the end of Bede Homily 3:15 ( In Lucae euangelium expositio II 7) and the start of 3:26 ( In Lucae euangelium expositio IV 14)

Edited: Bede , 158-159
Edited: Bede , 274-275

Digitised material for Leaf from 12th century Homilary - DUL Add.MS. 1950/12
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Bibliography

Bedae Venerabilis opera. Pars II, Opera exegetica. 3, In Lucae Evangelium expositio, In Marci Evangelium expositio   OCLC citation, Corpus christianorum. Series Latina, 120, (Turnhout: Brepols, 1960)

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