MS. Add. C. 188
Summary Catalogue no.: 29277
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Beginning with Magna Carta and ending with 'Interpretacio Sok & Sak', preceded by a list of contents for the whole volume.
Beginning with 'Fet asauer' and ending with 'Exceptiones contra Brevia'.
Lastest writ (the final one) dated 1297, the first dated 2 June 1294.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 33–34 lines.
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 515:
Miniatures (marginal sketches).
Good penwork initials.
Coloured initials, rubrics.
fol. 220r: drawing, lower margin, a bird and two half-figures of a man and a woman.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Ludwell', 15th cent., fol. iii.
'Johannes Toller', early 16th cent., fol. 221.
'Sum domini Alexandri Hoch', 16th cent., fol. 222v.
'Thome Aston', 16th cent., second half, fol. iii.
His great-grandson Simon Degge M.D. (d. 1729) (who wrote in the volume on 5 April 1723).
A. J. Horwood; lot. 1325 in his sale, 12 June 1883.
Purchased for the Bodleian.
Record Sources
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.