Saint Hieronymus & Saint (Julia) Eustochium

Illuminated manuscript originally from Jumièges

Oxford Bodleian MS Bodl 717 fol-6r (end of 11th cent)

Commentary on Isaiah - Hieronymus & Eustochium

 

The scroll reads:

Expletis longo vix tempore in duodeci prophetas (viginti explanationum libris et in Danielem commentariis,) cogis me, virgo Christi Eustochium, transire (ad Esaiam;)

This is the incipit of the letter, which Jerome wrote to Eustochium about 408-410.

epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/273.html

 

translated:

Having finished not long ago twenty books of exposition on the twelve prophets and the commentaries on Daniel, you compel me, virgin of Christ Eustochium, to go on to Isaiah;

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