Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32 St Dunstan’s Classbook

Latin
s. ix + s. xi composite manuscript
English manuscripts
vellum

Composite volume, probably bound together at Glastonbury, consisting of four originally distinct parts.

General
Contents

Identifiers

Location

England Oxford, Bodleian Library

Shelfmark

Auct. F. 4. 32

Title

St Dunstan’s Classbook

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

s. ix + s. xi

Origin, provenance

Provenance: Glastonbury AbbeyGlastonbury Abbey

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more ass. with DunstanDunstan

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more Langley (Henry)Langley (Henry)

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more The different MSS were probably bound together at Glastonbury. Three of them are thought to have been brought together by Dunstan, who was monk and later abbot of the monastery. The MS, or at least the part containing Eutych’s Ars de verbo, is listed in the 1247/48 catalogue of the library at Glastonbury. On f. 47v of the MS, there is a note saying In custodia fratris H. Langley, i.e. Henry Langley of Glastonbury. See MLGB3.

Later provenance: ass. with Leland (John)

Leland (John)

(c.1503–1552)

English antiquary and poet.

See more John Leland c.1538. See MLGB3.

Later provenance: Oxford, Bodleian Library

Oxford, Bodleian Library

No short description available

See more ass. with Allen (Thomas) [mathematician]

Allen (Thomas) ... mathematician

(1540/1542?–1632)

English mathematician and antiquary.

See more f. 1r: Thomas Allen of Gloucester Hall donated the book to the Bodleian (1601).

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.

composite manuscript

Material

vellum

Distinct units

ff. 1-9

Oxford, Bodleian Library,… ff. 1-9 [s. ix]

A fragment of Eutyches’ Ars de verbo.

ff. 10-18

Eleventh-century leaves containing an Old English homily on the Invention of the Cross.

ff. 19-36

Oxford, Bodleian Library,… ff. 19-36 [s. ix¹]

Liber Commonei (‘The Book of Commoneus’).

ff. 37-47

Oxford, Bodleian Library,… ff. 37-47 [s. ix²/xⁱⁿ]

A glossed copy of Ovid’s Ars amatoria (Book 1).

Table of contents

Legend

Texts

Links to texts use a standardised title for the catalogue and so may or may not reflect what is in the manuscript itself, hence the square brackets. Their appearance comes in three basic varieties, which are signalled through colour coding and the use of icons, , and :

- If a catalogue entry is both available and accessible, a direct link will be made. Such links are blue-ish green and marked by a bookmark icon.
- When a catalogue entry does not exist yet, a desert brown link with a different icon will take you to a page on which relevant information is aggregated, such as relevant publications and other manuscript witnesses if available.
- When a text has been ‘captured’, that is, a catalogue entry exists but is still awaiting publication, the same behaviour applies and a crossed eye icon is added.

The above method of differentiating between links has not been applied yet to texts or citations from texts which are included in the context of other texts, commonly verses.

Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
- Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23

English manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Oxford Digital Library, Early manuscripts at Oxford University, Online: University of Oxford, 2001–present. URL: <http://image.ox.ac.uk>.

Digital reproduction direct link

[dig. img.] Digital Bodleian, Online: Oxford, Bodleian Library, ?–present. URL: <http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk>.

Digital reproduction direct link

[dig. img.] Oxford Digital Library: LUNA, Online, ?–present. URL: <http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet>.

Digital reproduction direct link

[facs.] Hunt, Richard W., Saint Dunstan’s Classbook from Glastonbury: Codex Biblioth. Bodleianae Oxon. Auct. F.4./32, Umbrae codicum occidentalium, 4, Amsterdam, 1961.

Facsimile edition, with introduction

Facsimile edition with introduction

Secondary sources (select)

Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a bibliographical handlist of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

430–432 [id. 537.]

Budny, Mildred, “‘St. Dunstan’s classbook’ and its frontispiece: Dunstan’s portrait and autograph”, in: Nigel Ramsay, Margaret Sparks, and Tim W. T. Tatton-Brown (eds), St Dunstan: his life, times and cult, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1992. 103–142.

Hunt, Richard W., Summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vol. 1: Historical introduction and conspectus of shelf-marks, Oxford: Clarendon, 1953.

Bodleian Library: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

80 Mentioned in a list of the library’s acquisitions from 1601. Short title: Eutyches.