MS. Add. C. 153
Summary Catalogue no.: 28493
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The four Gospels (fols. 1, 49v, 85, 131)
With prefaces and chapter lists; imperfect before the text of Matthew.
Combined temporale and sanctorale, beginning with Christmas (160v); Febr. (162), March (162v), Lent (163), Eastertide (165), April (165), May (165v) Pentecost and June (166v), July (167v), August (168v), Sept. (169v), Oct. (170), Nov. (170v), All Saints (171), Advent (171v); votive Masses (171v: de diversis causis) and masses of the dead (172v).
Physical Description
Layout
Capitulare list in 29 lines
Decoration
Fine initials, related to Paris, Bibl. nat. MS. Lat. 264. (Pächt and Alexander i. 265, pl. XVIII)
Binding
Black velvet on boards.
Accompanying Material
Endleaves: fol. i, Tobit x.11-xi.18, with gloss, 13th century; fols. ii-iv, fragments of translations from Aristotle, printed at Louvain c. 1476 by Conrad de Braem.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Possibly from Aulne-sur-Sambre (cf. MS. Add. C. 152)
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1843.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-01-28: Description revised in light of van Dijk, Pächt and Alexander, and SC.