Homeliae decem super extremam partem ezechielis, 1000 - 1050

Written in Tournai during the first half of the 11th century. In the lower margin of f. 1r is the note: "Liber Radbodi epi." written in the same hand as the hand which wrote the second article. This Radbod (the second) whose Sermo de nativitate B. M. V. is article 2, was elected Bishop of Noyon and Tournai in 1067-68, and died in 1098. Johann A. Fabricius in his Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae aetatis (Florentiae, 1858-59) v. 6, p. 333 notes the existence of two manuscripts of Radbod's Sermo de nativitate, one in the Vatican and the other in the library of St. Martin at Tournai. Given that this text once belonged to Radbod, our manuscript may be the St. Martin copy mentioned by Fabricius. Perhaps also in the possession of Petrarch, to whom the marginalia is attributed. Elisabeth Pellegrin, in "Nouveaux Manuscrits Annotés par Pétrarque à la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris," Scriptorium 5 (1951) 270-71, describes two other manuscripts probably from the Abbey of Saint-Martin, Tournai owned and annotated by Petrarch. In the collection of the Marquess of Blandford at White Knights (Bibliotheca Blandfordiensis, I [1813] 2); his sale (London, 7 June 1819, n. 1960) to Henry Drury (ownership note, in ink, f. ii recto); his sale (London, 19 Feb. 1827, n. 2015) to Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 3373, on paper label on spine and f. i verso); his sale (London, 1913, n. 547) to Leighton; his sale (London, 14 Nov. 1918, I, n.339) to Maggs; offered by J. Martini, Cat. 16 (1920), n. 12; Cat 17 (1922) n. 8; Cat. 18 (1922) n. 8 (printed catalogue entry laid in); in the collection of Edward Duff Balken, Pittsburgh (printed bookplate; in lead in upper left corner: "25"); obtained from Maggs, Cat. 542 (1930) n. 35 by Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate).