Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 718

Library	Bodleian Library
Shelfmark	Bodley 718 (2632)
Century	saec. Xex-XIin (catalogue, Pächt-Alexander), saec. X2-Xex (Gneuss, saec. X2 (Dumville), saec. X (Ker, saec. X-XI (Kerff, Kéry)
General region of origin	Exeter
Collection	Quadripartitus
Main author	Bruno Schalekamp

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodleian 718 (2632) is a late tenth to early eleventh-century manuscript of 182 folios in 1 col. (352 x 229 mm). Its codicological composition is unknown. The partially digitized version only confirms a single quire signature, IIII²⁸. Modern foliation is in Arabic numerals. It was written in Exeter by multiple hands in Anglo-Saxon minuscule. According to Blair, the manuscript was in Dorchester after 1067 and five years later in Exeter. It was given by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter to the Bodleian library in 1602.

Contents

FINISH SOON

folios	texts
	Front cover
Irv	Chapters and title of the Penitential of Pseudo-Egbert of York
1r-3r	Pseudo-Egbert's Penitential, prologue
3r-5r	Gerbald of Liège' First Capitulary
5r-21r	Pseudo-Egbert' Penitential
21v	Blank page
22r-178r	Collectio canonum Quadripartita (Quadripartitus), books 2-4
22r-50r	Book 2, including list of titles
50r-121r	Book 3, including preface and list of titles
121r-178r	Book 4, including prologue, list of titles, and epilogue
178r-v	Excerpts of patristic works and conciliar law
179r	Local entries in various hands concerning debts of laymen of Banbury, Thame, and Aylesbury. Late 11th century hand
179v	Small probationes pennae
180r	Short excerpt of papal decretal by pope Gregory VI, titled: Nullus episcopus grauamen...
180v	Letter from pope Leo IX to king Edward the Confessor. Late 11th century hand
	Back cover

Literature

Aronstam, The Latin canonical tradition (1974), p. 34-35; Bateson, ‘A Worcester Cathedral Book’ (1895), p. 712, 714 and 721; Bateson, ‘The supposed latin penitential’ (1894), p. 320-326; Bethurum, ‘Archbishop Wulfstan’s Commonplace Book’ (1942), p. 916, 919, and 928; Blair, ‘Estate memoranda’ (2001), p. 114-123; Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter (1993), p. 38-39; Cubitt, ‘Archbishop Dunstan’ (2007), p. 162-163; Cubitt, ‘Bishops, priests and penance’ (2006), p. 58-59; Drage, Bishop Leofric (1978), p. 407-410; Dumville, Liturgy (1992), p. 82 n. 88, 85 n. 11, 90 n. 114, and 133-134; Fehr, Die Hirtenbriefe (1914, repr. 1966), p. xcix; Fournier, Le Bras, Histoire (1931), p. 317; Fowler, ‘Wulfstan’s Canons’ (1972), p. LVIII; Gameson, ‘The origin of the Exeter book’ (1996), p. 162-169 and 177-178; Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (2001), no 592; Haggenmüller, Die Überlieferung (1991), p. 87-88; Hamilton, ‘Remedies’ (2005), p. 90; Holmquist, ‘Viking art in the eleventh century’ (1951), p. 6; Homburger, Die Anfänge der Malschule (1912), p. 3; Johnson, A Collection Vol. 1 (1850), p. 185, 187, and 223; Kendrick, Late Saxon, p. 18 and 131; Ker, Catalogue of manuscripts (1957, repr. 1990), p. 153 and 437; Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 85; Kerff, Quadripartitus (1982), p. 20-24; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 167-199; Madan, Craster, A Summary Catalogue (1922), p. 459-461; Maassen, Geschichte (1870), p. 852 and 862; Mordek, Kirchenrecht (1975), p. 172 n. 356; Pächt-Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts (1973), p. 36; Rice, English Art, p. 178; Schmitz, Bussbücher Vol. 1 (1883), p. 718; Selborne, Ancient Facts (1892), p. 230, 235-241, and 327-331; Temple, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (1976), no. 30 (xiv); Webber, Scribes and scholars (1992), p. 92; West, ‘Legal culture’ (2010), p. 373-374; Wormald, Initials, p. 135.

See also Michael Elliot's extensive work on this particular manuscript, including a full transcription of the Quadripartitus on his own website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/.

Categories

• Manuscript
• digitized
• saec XI