A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the quarto series with references to the Oriental and other manuscripts. Vol. II. Part II: Collections and miscellaneous MSS. acquired

573 Pages·1937·29.507 MB·English

by  Falconer Madan, Herbert Henry Edmund Craster

A SUMMARY CATALOGUE
OF
WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS
IN THE
BODLEIAN LIBRARY AT OXFORD
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OF
WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS
IN THE
BODLEIAN LIBRARY AT OXFORD
WHICH HAVE NOT HITHERTO BEEN CATALOGUED
IN THE QUARTO SERIES
WITH REFERENCES TO THE ORIENTAL AND
OTHER MANUSCRIPTS
BY
FALCONER MADAN, M.A.
FORMERLY BODLEY'S LIBRARIAN
H. H. E. CRASTER, M.A., D.LITT.
BODLEY'S LIBRARIAN
FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD
N. DENHOLM-YOUNG, B.LITT., M.A.
FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD
VOL. II. PART II
Collections and miscellaneous MSS.
acquired during the second half
of the 17th century
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1937
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMEN HOUSE, E.C. 4
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HUMPHREY MILFORD
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
PREFACE
AFTER an interval of fifteen years the text of the Summary Catalogue of
all MSS. acquired by the Library before 1915 is completed with the
issue of the present volume. This part (volume II, part ii) contains
nos. 3491-8716, thus finishing the revision of the Old Catalogue of 1697.
The methods adopted are as in preceding volumes, except that it has
no longer been thought necessary to invent accession numbers, which
in the last volume directly followed the catalogue number. It will also
be noted that the oriental cross-references are taken, as in previous
volumes, from the printed catalogues or from the hand-lists, and that
they are therefore neither in modern nor necessarily consistent form.
The bulk of e Mus., a draft for the Marshall collection, and a few other
scattered pieces, were catalogued-in part many years ago-by the
late mr. Madan. The Hatton collection, MSS. Dodsworth 1-60, and
Casaubon's Adversaria were done by dr. Craster when he was Keeper
of Western Manuscripts; and MSS. Savile 1-14, with some other
Greek pieces, were catalogued by mr. Lobel, the present Keeper. For
the rest I am responsible, though my labours have been much lightened
by the trouble which the Librarian and the Keeper have taken in read
ing not only their own proofs but mine as well. Others from whom I
have sought assistance at one time or another are too numerous to
mention and will I hope regard this expression of my gratitude as none
the less sincere because it is general.
This volume contains the accessions of the later seventeenth century
to 1697. Among the great variety of manuscripts dealt with are some
notable early codices, specified below, and a high proportion of seven
teenth-century antiquarian collections, including the extensive and
valuable papers of Dodsworth, Dugdale, Junius, and Marshall. Accord
ing to former practice the more important items in several categories
are listed hereunder.
I. BIBLES AND LITURGIES
Bibles and commentaries, in Latin and Middle English, are too
numerous to specify. The most noteworthy MS. in this class is no. 3946
(Gospels of Macregol). Breviaries are nos. 3491, 4034 (Sarum), 5299,
5315 (Utrecht), 6481 (Evesham). Books of Hours are well represented:
see nos. 3589, 3601 (Norwich), 4074 (Rome), 6484, 6486, 6488-535
(Sarum), and 6543. There are also Norwich (4131), Worcester (6417),
and Sarum (8607) missals; Sarum (4102) and Canterbury (6479)
manuals; and Gallican (4052, 4120), Llandaff (4055), Norwich (4123),
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Peterborough (6461), and Winchester (5139: Codex Vossianus) psalters.
See also nos. 3636, 3653,4133. 4124 is a festial, 5325 a Cistercian col
lectar, 'P34 a gradual, and 6419 the Evesham pontifical.
2. THEOLOGY AND CHURCH HISTORY
Important conciliar MSS. are nos. 3686-8 (the Justell MSS.), 3689,
4117 (Hibemensis), 3495 (Council of Constance): see also 6464. Canon
Law is represented by 3585, 3642, 4128, 4129, 8565. Medieval Latin
sermons are in 3501, 3592, 3635, 3643,4031,4048,4092, 6427"", 6470,
8601 (Neckham). 4078 contains those of Richard Rolle and 3656 has
other English sermons. The oldest MS. of the rule of st. Benedict is
nO.4118. Cathedral statutes are in 3602 (Rochester) and 8597 (Exeter);
8602 contains Carthusian statutes and 8609 Augustinian chapters
general. Among the chartularies the most important is 8589 (Glaston
bury). Church history is also illustrated by nos. 3537, 6462 (Bede),
3542 (Ailred of Rievaulx), 8592 (constitutions of Lanfranc), 3595, 4087
(both the taxation of pope Nicholas iv), 4140 (Franciscans), 3604
(Urban viii), 6469 (Alexander vii). For the history of controversy see
3629 (Lollards), 6430 (Vaudois), 3671-2 (Douai disputations), 8575
(English Catholics), and 3593, 3621 (French Protestants). 3502 con
tains a list of the jewels of surrendered monasteries. 6421"", 6436"" are
archbishop Ussher's collections. See also under Chronicles in § 6, and
the James MSS.
3. GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Apart from Greek MSS. already catalogued in the Quarto Series,
and so here treated by a cross-reference, there are a few in the Savile
collection (nos. 6548-61). See also the collections of Casaubon and
Langbaine, and Greek pieces in 3867, 8677, 8713.
4. LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
There are no classical MSS. of great importance in this volume, but
the following authors occur: 8574 (Juvenal), 4139 (Juvenal and Persius),
6465 (Statius), 6480 (Cicero), 8684"" (Manilius), 4064, 4069 (Seneca),
and 4056 (Sidonius Apollinaris). 4065 is Donatus, 4130 Boccaccio, and
3994 Poggio. There are two important MSS. of John of Salisbury's
Polycraticus (6418, 6428). Other MSS. of interest are 3581 (gram
matical), 3618, 4054, 6478, 6487 (all humanistic). 3903 is a Latin
version of Mandeville's Travels.
5. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Old English MSS. of the first importance are 41 13 (Liber Pastoralis),
5II3 (Ormulum), 5I23 (Caedmon), and 5134, 5210 (st. Wulfstan's
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homiliary): see also 3878-9, 4125, 5135-6, 5196-7, 5232. Middle
English MSS. are numerous, including the massive Vernon MS. (3938-
42). Others are 3509, 3679, 4127, 516il' (Richard Rolle); 3554, 3617,
3896,4138,6420 (Chaucer); 3562, 3617 (Mandeville); 3588 0. Walton);
3615, 4101 (Nicholas Love); 3619 (medical); 3681, 4II9 (Lydgate);
3815,41°9, 4IIO (William of Nassington); 3829 (1. Mirk); 3832 (the
Gestes of Alisaunder); 3882,4°99 (Gower); 3894 (Cursor Mundi); 6533
(Hoccleve). No. 3579 is Thomas Ellis's note-book (A.D. 1653). Seven
teenth-century transcripts of Old English material are in the Junius
collection. Nos. 3511, 3909 are Irish; nos. 3652,4°54 are Welsh. See
also § 6.
6. HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN
Chronicles are not uncommon in this volume, and there are many
extracts from historical sources in the James collection. The chronicles
are in nos. 3632, 3634, 4112 (Brute); 3659, 3900, 4122 (Flores); 3697
(French Brut), 3886 (Durham), 3888 (Liber Pluscardensis), 3890
(Trivet), 3892, 4106 (Bede), 3904 (Langtoft), 3908 (Geoffrey of Mon
mouth), 4027 (Anon.), 4°72 (William of Malmesbury), 4105 (Higden),
8684 (Anon.). 3512 is a life of Becket and 3515 a life of Mary Queen
of Scots. Collections of statutes and legal pieces are too numerous to
be specified. There are sixteenth-seventeenth century papers in nos.
3498-9. See also §§ 2, 7.
7. BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY
This bulks large in the antiquarian collections of the seventeenth cen
tury, particularly those of Roger Dodsworth (much of it for Yorkshire)
and William Dugdale (chiefly for Warwickshire). For Oxford and its
shire see the Wood (Ashmole) collection. No. 3582 contains the earliest
collection of Oxford statutes, 3631 is Oxford questiones, and 3633 is
an early Bodleian catalogue. No. 4107 relates to Kent, and no. 3737 to
the Southwark stews. No. 3709 is in John Stow's autograph.
8. FOREIGN LANGUAGFil AND LITERATURE
Nos. 5161, 5189 are in Dutch and Frisian. as are many of the Mar
shall MSS. Gothic is represented by nos. 5167,5231, German by the
Murbach hymnal (5137) and no. 5194. Of Italian (3675,5267,8°7°) or
Russian (3547, 3880,4°33,6489"'''') there is little. French is more often
found: see nos. 368o, 3685,3691, 3823,4°46,4°67,4°75,4°92,87 14, and,
for the French church, nos. 3593, 3621. No. 4II7 contains Breton glosses.
9. FOREIGN HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY
Four items of some interest occur under this head: Spanish state
papers (3503), an account of Egypt and Syria (4084), a poem on the
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first Crusade (4093), and an account of Charles the Bold's household
(4097).
10. SCIENCE AND ARTS
Most of the medical MSS. will be found between nos. 3510 and 3828,
but see also nos. 4044, 4068,5266,6468,8603,8606. On alchemy and
magic see nos. 3543, 3546, 3548, 3550, 3652, 3902, 8613. Astronomy
and mathematics are found in nos. 3556 (Roger of Hereford), 3907,
3924, 4137, 6561*, and 6562-612. 3623 is a scientific miscellany.
II. MISCELLANEOUS
No. 3524 is in seventeenth-century cypher. No. 4082 belonged to
Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
_ The oldest manuscripts dealt with are: 3686-8 (late 6th cent.); 4118
(early 8th cent.); 5137 (8th and 9th centt.); 3946 (c. 800); 3689, 4113,
4117, 5265 (9th cent.); 3584 (B), 5139 (loth cent.); 5123, 5232, 6416
(lIth cent.). Amongst the illuminated manuscripts 4090 (12th-cent.
gospels) is noteworthy.
For dated manuscripts, those of monastic provenance, and monastic
chartularies, see the Bodleian Quarterly Record, vol. i, nos. 3, p. 172;
7, p. 193; II, p. 323; 12, p. 344; vol. iii, no. 25, p. 19; vol. vii,
no. 77, p. 169; and vol. viii, no. 92, p. 263. . .
The patient users of the Summary Catalogue will note, I hope with
relief, that volume I, containing the conspectus of shelf-marks and an
historical introduction, is in course of preparation.
N.D.-Y.
LIST OF COLLECTIONS
DEALT WITH IN THIS VOLUME
Name and general character. NOI. Acquired. Page.
VIII. E Musaeo (miscel- 3491-3737 1652-83 don. 655
laneous, chiefly et empt.
medieval)
Huntington donat. 3738-3772 1678-83 don. 742
(Oriental)
Greaves (Or.) 3773-3837 1678 empt. 744
James (antiquarian) 3838-3880 1678 empt. 750
Fairfax (medieval) . 3881-3909 1673 leg. 771
Lambe (Or.) . 3910-3918 1669 don. 787
•
Clarke (Or.) . 3919-3932 1670 empt. 788
Miscellaneous 3933-3946 before 1685 789
Casaubon and Lang- 3947-3967 1671 leg. 793
baine(Gk. &c.), &c.
Thurston, &c. (Or.) 3968-4025 1661 don. et 798
empt.
Hatton (medieval) . 4026-4137 1671 801
Hatton donat. (do.) 4138-4140 1688 863
4141-4142b 1669 empt. et 864
don.
Dodsworth (anti- 4143-5101 1683-4 don. 865
quarian)
Leland (do.) . 5102-5 II I 1632 don. 961
IX. Junius (do.) . 5112-5232 1678 leg. 962
X. Marshall (misc.) 5233-5327 1685 leg. 992
XI. Pococke (Or.) 5328-5747 1693 empt. 1009
XII. Huntington (Or.) 5748-6374 1693 empt. 1024
XIII. Hyde (Or.) 6374-6412 1692 empt. 1041
XIV. Barlow (miscel- 6413-6490 1691 leg. 1044
laneous, chiefly
medieval)
XV. Dugdale (anti- 6491-6536 1686 leg. 1068
quarian)
Kingsley (misc.) 6537-6542 1688 don. 1092
Aubrey (misc.) 6543-6547 1688 don. 1092
XVI. Savile (Gk. and ma- 6548-6615 1620 don. 1094
thematical, &c.)
XVII. Ashmole (misc.) 6616-8462 1860 leg. 1II6
x LIST OF COLLECTIONS
Name and general character. Nos. Acquired. Page.
XVIII. Wood (Ashm.) (anti- 8463-8589 1860 leg. II6 5
quarian)
XIX. Wood empt. 8589d-8613 1690 empt. II 98
(medieval)
Wood donate 8614-8622 1696 don. 1205
(adversaria)
Marshall (Or. and 8623-8686 1685 leg. 1205
antiquarian) (cf.5233-
5327)
Fell (medieval and 8687-8708 1686 leg. 1I21
antiquarian)
Miscellaneous 8709-8716 1672-97 don. 1214
et empt.
FORM OF CATALOGUE ENTRY
Description.
I. Number.
2. Language.
3. Material.
4. Date and nationality or scribe.
5. Size, the extreme external measurements of the volume.
6. Number of leaves or pages, and of columns in a page.
7. Whether illuminated, palimpsest, injured, &c.
8. Binding, if remarkable.
Contents.
Every item of any size or importance is noted, with a reference to the
leaf of the MS. But the description is summary, especially in the
case of correspondence. 'rev.' in a reference to a leaf implies that
the volume has to be reversed or turned round, in order to read
the article referred to.
History.
I. Place of origin and former owners, if obvious and of interest.
2. Date and mode of acquisition.
3. Present pressmark. The old pressmarks are reserved for comparative
tables, to be issued in vol. i.