A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford with references to the oriental manuscripts and papyri. Vol. VI (Accessions, 1890-1915) Nos. 31001-37299

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by  Falconer Madan, H. H. E. Craster

SUMMARY CATALOGUE
OF
\VESTERN MANUSCRIPTS
IN THE
BODLEIAN LIBRARY AT OXFORD
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OF
WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS
IN THE
BODLEIAN LIBRARY AT OXFORD
WITH REFERENCES TO THE ORIENTAL
MANUSCRIPTS AND PAPYRI
BY
FALCONER MADAN, M.A.
FORMERLY BODLEY'S LIBRARIAN
AND
H. H. E. CRASTER, M.A., D.LITT.
SUB-LIBRARIAN; FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD
VOL. VI
(Accessions, 1890-1915)
Nos. 31001-37299
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PREFACE
..
THIS sixth volume of the Summary Catalogue describes the manu
scripts acquired by the Library between July 1890 and December 1915.
The accessions of each year are taken in turn, the arrangement within
each year being (]) Western MSS. on parchment or paper in the
alphabetical order of their pressmarks; (2) Greek and Latin papyri;
(3) 'Western Inscriptions', chiefly Greek ostraka; (4) Oriental MSS.
on parchment or paper; (5) Oriental papyri; .(6) Oriental Inscriptions,
chiefly ostraka and cuneiform tablets. MSS. falling within the first of
the above six groups are summarily described; all others are listed on
a system of single· line entry. Although any further notice of the last
three categories would be out of place in a Catalogue of Western MSS.,
it is permissible, before proceeding to the first, to characterize the
second and third groups, that is the Greek and Latin MSS. on materials
other than parchment or paper.
A. PAPYRI. Before 1890 the Bodleian collection of papyri consisted
solely of the important Hawara papyrus of Iliad II (29896 a-j), four
burnt rolls from Herculaneum (28047-50), and a mass of unsorted
fragments from the Fayum find of 1877 (see nos. 30822, 33608). Since
that date the Library has received the following accessions :-
1. Ptolemaic 3rd cent. papyri from Gurob in the Fayum. Listed in
1895 and 1898 accessions. Published, with numer.ous facsimiles of
non-literary documents, in Mahaffy's Peine PapJ·n·.
2. Ptolemaic 3rd cent. papyri from Hibeh. 1909 accessions. Pub
lished in Grenfell and Hunt's Hibeh Papyri. Other papyri from the
same site are included in the 1896 and 1897 accessions, and are in part
published in Grenfell and Hunt's Greek Papyrt~ 2nd series.
3. A small collection of Ptolemaic 3rd cent. fragments, bought from
professor Sayce about 1907, but listed among the .1915 accession~.
Unpublished.
4. Ptolemaic 2nd cent. fragments, bought from the same in 1888.
Listed in the 1890-1 accessions. Unpublished.
vi PREFACE
5. Papyri of the first four centuries A.D. from Oxyrhynchus. Listed
in accessions of 1900, 1901, 1903, 1906, 1915. Published in Grenfell
and Hunt's Oxyrhynchus Papyn·.
6. Papyri, chiefly of the Roman and Byzantine periods, from the
Fayum, including a series of second-century documents from Socnopaei
Neaus. Accessions of 1894-7. Acquired from professor B. P. Grenfell
and in large part published in his Greek Papyri, 1st and 2nd series.
7. A small number of Byzantine documents from Hermopolis and
Apollinopolis. Listed in accessions of 1893, 1895, 1896. Similarly
acquired and published.
8. Papyri from the monastery <Jf Deir-Balyzeh, containing Christian
literature of the 6th-8th centuries. Presented by professor Flinders
Petrie in 1908. Listed in accessions of 1908-10. Unpublished.
The most important of the non-literary Greek papyri is no. JI901
(revenue laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus); the most popular is no. }}OO}
(an Egyptian schoolboy's letter). * The chief literary papyri are :-
(a) Classical literature :-}6953 (Achilles Tatius), 33701 (Aeschines),
36957 verso (Alexandrian chronicle), }46o}-5 verso (anthology), 31961
(Apollonius Sophista); 33693, 33695 (Aristophanes); 33692 (Aristotle),
32310-II (DemosttJ,enes), 34619 recto (Epicharmus), 33684 (farce and
mime); 31712, 31714, 31717, 31941, }227}, 32283. 32289, 32306,
32322, 3}3Jl verso, 33698-9, 34598 (Homer, Iliad); 31720 (Homer,
Odyssey); }46o}-5 recto (Lysias); }}685, 36967 (Menander); }2}l2
(Pherecydes); JI922-}, 32986, 33334 verso (Plato); }4607 ('P"lTOPLK1}
r.pos >AAi~avopov), J}691 recto (Doric treatise on rhetoric), 34606 recto
(sayings of Simonides), }4617 (Sophocles), 33330 (Xenophon).
(b) Biblical fragments :-31708, 31900, 33681 (Septuagint); 36943
(st. Matthew).
(c) Old Christian literature :-}2901 (Logia Jesu); 330II, }}702
(Shepherd of Hermas); J6979 (acts of st. John), 33608 (letter of
Abgarus), }4149-JI (Egyptian liturgy).
Latin papyri are necessarily few. They are :-32344 recto, 32482
recto, 32483-4, J}OI2-IJ, 33334 recto, 3J70J (dated cursive, A. D. 247),
36980 (Sallust).
B. OSTRAKA. An extensive collection of ostraka given by professor
Sayee in 1915, but not immediately hand-listed, falls outside the limits
of this volume. The Greek ostraka here recorded (see accessions of
1896, 1907, 1910, 1912-14) have been in [Jart described in J. G. Milne's
Theban Ostraca and are chiefly receipts and accounts of the Ptolemaic
* Italic numbers denote that part has been reproduced in facsimile.
PREFACE vii
and early Roman periods from the Thebaid, but nos.' 33910-41 came
from Oxyrhynchus and belong to the 3rd-6th centuries A. D.
C. TABLETS.' T'hese are nos. 32012-13 (Greek wax tablets: cpo
30138); 34158 (s~?ne school"tablet), 36743 (wooden headpiece of
tombstone), 32409 (Latin wax tablet, dated A. D. 147).
D. VELLUM FRAGMENTS FROM EGYPT. A complete list of these has
been given in the Bodleian Quarterly Record, iii (1922), p. 287. The,
most considerable are :-':':31075,31658, 35214 (Septuagint fragments);
31074, 36906 (Old Testament Apocrypha); 318°4, 34664 (Gospel
fragments); 31659-60, 31810, 31813, 32237, 35212 (early Christian
literature); 32242 (Roman law).
E. MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MSS. The chief are noted below,
under the subject-headings adopted in the prefaces to former volumes.
Medieval MSS. are comparatively few.
I. BIBLES AND LITURGIES.
Fragments of st. John's gospel are in 31089 (8th cent. Vulgate version)
and 31345 (W. Saxon version). See also papyri and early vellum
fragments.
Among liturgical MSS. are 31535 (Como sacramentary, 11th cent.),
32556 (Swiss Cistercian gradual), 32940 (York gradual), 32557 (mar
tyrology with Rieti additions), 32558 (Chertsey calendar), and various
breviaries, as 32861 (San Sisto, Piacenza), 33086 (Apt), 33405 (Bor
deaux), 35185 (Braga). Other dioceses represented are Maguelonne
(33196, missal), Prague (33556, missal), Saragossa (32706, horae),
Geneva (33654, horae). Fragments of the loth-11th centt. are in
31378. For 34149-51 see papyri.
2. THEOLOGY AND CHURCH HISTORY.
For old Christian literature see papyri and early vellum fragments
above. Some other MSS. deserving note are 31383 (8th cent. com
mentary on Pentateuch), 31541 (Cistercian rule), 33199 (proceedings in
the Roman Rota).
3. GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
See above under papyri.
4: LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Few of the MSS. are of special interest, but one may note 32241
(Catullus), 32555 (do.), 32944 (Josephus), 33193 (Infortiatum), 35596
viii PREFACE
(Erasmus's letters). A list of Latin papyri has been given above. See
also 32409 (wax tablet) and 32242 (vellum fragment).
5. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
The most notable literary MSS. are the Shelley papers (31548-59).
32856 contains letters of Gilbert White. Other accessions are 31346
(Old English charters), 32059-207 (Hallam's dialect collections),
31432-43 (Welsh poems), 31504 (Cornish mystery-plays).
6. HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
Historical MSS. include 31347 (impeachment of Pole, duke of
Suffolk), 36881 (journal of siege of Rouen, 1591), 35583 (Strafford
papers), 35587-9 (prince Rupert papers), 33552 (Civil War intelligence
reports), 35375-6 (correspondence of English amlJassadors at Nimeguen,
1677-9),31647 (Irish historical documents, 15th-16th centt.), 31757-8
and 31762-4 (letter-books of Edw. Southwell, Secretary for Ireland,
l703-(3). 31767-73, 32019-30, 32033-58 are dr. S. R. Gardiner's
material for his History of England. The following are collections of
private correspondence :-31064-9 (Fairfax family, 17th-18th centt.),
35584-6 and 36606 (Ducket family, 1633-1715), 31014 (dr. Edw. Lhuyd,
1671-1705), 35646-66 (Mark Pattison, 1830-76). The Albany collec~
tion of autographs is 35573-5.
7. BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY.
MSS. relating to the University of Oxford are numerous, many
19th cent. papers about University degrees and finance having been
transferred to the Library from the offices. of the Registrar and the
Secretary to the Chest: see accessions of 1890-2, 1899, 1907-8.
Dr. Andrew Clark presented collections made by himself on past
members of Lincoln (33895-8,33904-8,34137-43), Balliol (35409-47,
35736-46), and Jesus colleges (36713-26). Other collections received
have been those of Philip Bliss (university papers, 33587-602), T. W.
Jackson (Gloucester college, 36891-8), and Herbert Hurst (Oxford
topography, 36027-55)' 31110-27 are the records of the Oxford
Barbers' Company. The principal Oxfordshire MSS. are 31641-5
(Goring charters), 36243-7 (archdeaconry papers); 33441-2, 34580-90
and 35207-8 (Shirburn parish registers and parish books); 3I8n and
34595 (formula books of justices of the peace), 36704-5 (Skelton'S
collections).
Ecclesiology is represented by the Rigaud-Coxe collection of font
;(irawings (36676-96). Dr. Andrew Clark gave his own considerable
PREFACE IX
collections on Essex topography, namely nos. 33771-89, 35193-8,
35688-712, 36287-301, 36698-703. Other topographical MSS. are
3 I 346 (Old English charters); 31849, 31852-7, &c. (materials for
Westwood's Lapidarium Walliae); 33088 (Denbigh receivers' accounts,
ISIS/16), 31693 (Conway town book, 1570-1614),35378 (letter-book
of deputy lieutenants for Essex, 1608-39),32954-6 and 34490-1 (parish
books of Helmdon, Northants), 36609-13 (Gough's history of Enfield).
8. FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE.
Medieval French MSS. are few: they include 32220 (religious verse-)
and 33753 (universal chronicle). 32742 is in Aragonese and 32608 in
Catalan. 31082 and 33756 are Icelandic vellum MSS. 327 I 3 is
Mexican, and 36588 is Micmac.
9. FOREIGN HISTORY.
See 36617-25, a collection of Italian historical tracts of the 16th-
17th centt. Other noteworthy MSS. in this class are 31082 (J6nsb6k),
32608 (guild of clerks at Valencia), and 36883 (papers of N. Buckeridge,
agent at Ispahan, 1647-64).
10. SCIENCE AND ART.
The botanical notebooks of Jacob Bobart of the Oxford Physic
Garden are numbered 31820-3,31826-9, For a specimen of Oxford
15th cent. binding see 3183 I.
1 I. MISCELLANEOUS.
Nos. 31074-5, 32405, 33756 are palimpsest, 31383 was written in
the 8th cent. on the continent. 31089 and 31382 contain fragments of.
MSS. in insular script of the 8th and 9th cent. respectively. 3 I 346
(Crawford charters) includes dated English charters of 930, 957, 998
(two), 1007, and 1008-12. The MSS. traceable to English monastic
libraries are 327°8 (Battle), 32558 (Chertsey), 31096 (Jervaulx), 31379
(York).
This volume is the work of mr. Falconer Madan up to p. 348. I am
responsible for the last 150 pages, as well as for preface and addenda.
In compiling the latter, I h~ve given references to publications of papyri
as well as to those quarto catalogues of oriental MSS. which have
appeared since the earlier pages of this catalogue were written, and
have utilized notes made and bequeathed to the Library by dr. H. M.
Bannister to supplement the descriptions of liturgical MSS.
H. H. E. CRASTER.
FORM OF CATALOGUE ENTRY
Description.
1. Number.
2. Language.
3. Material.
4. Date and nationality or scribe.
5. Size, the extreme external measurements of the volume.
6. N umber of leaves or pages, and of columns in" a page.
7. Whether illuminated, palimpsest, or inj~red. '
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.
1. Place of otigin and form~r owners, if obvious and of interest.
2. Date and mode of acquisition.
3. Present pressmark.
CORRECTIONS, ETC.
Page. No.
2. 31010. This was no. 4277 in the Richard Gough Sale, 1810, and was then
bought by - i{imington for 12S. [F. M.]
3. 31012, art. I. For Thomas, ,'cad Robert. Art. 9 is a version of sir Robert
,. Wingfield's letter, for which see Ellis's Original Letters,
2nd ser., vol. iii, p. I13. The account of the funeral is
identical with that printed in Archae%gia, i, pp. 355-60.
Another copy of art. 10, presenting some variations, is
no. 12699.
4. 31014. For James Bobart, read Jacob Bobart; for M. Wheeler, read Maurice
Wheeler; and for J. Woodward, read John Woodward. The
bulk of Lhuyd's correspondence is in nos. 25184-8, 25191-2,
25202-3.
6. 31031, art. 7. Add from Cambro Univ. Libr. MS. Mm. i. 51, p. 99.
7. 31037, art. b. Lord Bernard Stuart's account of the battle of Edgehill has
been printed, from a Harleian MS., in Eng. Hist. Rev.
xxxvi (1921), p. 38.
8. 31040. Delete perhaps ..• Hampole.
10. 31064-71. The pencil references on certain select letters in nos. 31064-6,
31068, are to the Fait/ax Correspondence (ed. G. W.
Johnson and Robt. Bell, 1848-9), in which the letters so
marked have been printed. The Civil War despatches in
no. 31066 are from Prince Rupert's papers, for which see
nos. 35587-9. The life of Prince ](upert in no. 3107 I,
ending imperfect at fo1. 59, has been printed in Warburton's
Memoirs QI849), i. 441-62, iii. 233-327. Both the Rupert
and the Fairfax correspondence were acquired by Richard
Bentley, the publisher, and were sold by auction iu 1852.
For Add. A. JI9-20, read 28697 and 29084.
12. 31074. Bought, with nos. 31075 and 31079-81, from the rev. Greville Chester.
13. 31075. See above. After 12-21, add in the LXX version. For uncial
writing .•• I Ith cent., read rough uncials of about the 8th ceut.,
and for apparently Coptic ..• loth cent., read Coptic, in double
columns, at right angles to the upper text.-Nine other leaves
of the same book are in the British Museum, Add. MS. 34602,
foIl. 1-9.
13. 31079. See above. For perhaps in the second cent. B. c., ~ead in the 2nd
cent. A. D.
14. 31080-1. See above. These are two fragments of a bilingual MS. written
in round regular uncials, containing a homily on the Last
Judgement. Four other fragments of the same MS. are in the
British Museum, Or. MS. 3581 A, foIl. 181-4 (Crum's Cata
logue, no. 285).
14. 31082. The edicts of king Erik and king Haakon (Vl) are added in the
margin, only occasionally inserted in the text: cpo fol. 100.
Whole gatherings are wanting after foIl. 15, 28, 57, and a single
leaf after fol. 17. For Arne, read Ami.
16. 31090. After 105 leaves, add with some illuminated capitals.
17· 31097. Blank parer makes up the collation of this MS. to ii+43 leaves.
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