MS. Bodl. 151
Summary Catalogue no.: 1929
Contents
Language(s): Latin
In four distinctiones : see fols. 50v, 98v, 117r.
Fifty entries, with folio references, functioning as an index to the fourth distinction.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled in ink for 26 long lines, written below the top line, ruled space 180 × 130 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis.
Decoration
Red and blue pen-flourished initials with foliage infill, 4–8 lines.
Pen-flourished initials coloured in red or blue, 2–3 lines.
Rubrics and running heads in red; textual quotations underlined in red.
Binding
Brown leather with plain tooling, late 16th century.
Earlier sewing and wooden boards.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Given to Norwich Cathedral by Adam Easton: inscribed, Liber ecclesie Norwycensis per magistrum Adam de Estone monachcum[sic] dicti loci, with pressmark in red, x xl. vi (fol. 1r), 2nd half of the 14th century.
Presented by Sir Walter Cope in 1602.
Record Sources
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2023-11-30: Andrew Dunning revised with consultation of original.