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University College MS. 16

Contents

1.
Epistola beati Eusebii
Language(s): Latin
2.
Soliloquia sive meditationes sancti Augustini
Language(s): Latin
3.
Alloquia beati Augustini
Language(s): Latin
4.
Devota meitatio sive oratio ad proprium angelum
Language(s): Latin
5.
Anselm, Saint, Ad Sanctum Johannem Baptistam
Language(s): Latin
6.
Ad S. Johannem evangelistam
Language(s): Latin
7.
Alia oratio ad eundem Sanctum Johannem
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: vellum

Binding

Contemporary reversed red leather over wooden boards (lacking clasps and catches) with front endleaves from an English choirbook and rear endleaves with polyphonic music

Accompanying Material

See Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music for a description of the musical notation. College bookplate of 1650? on inside of upper board; College bookplate of 1700? on f. 3v. Contents listed on f. 149r.

History

Origin: 15th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Incorporated into the College Library in 1684; John Courteney mentioned in liminary text. (DIAMM) According to Coxe this manuscript belonged to Thomas Dackombe (1496-c.1572), petty canon of Winchester Cathedral.

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 5

Availability

For permission to use images of this manuscript, please contact University College Library: library@univ.ox.ac.uk

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.