University College MS. 54

John Chrysostom, Saint, -407, Homilies on John (tr. Francesco Girffolini) C. Nighman, “‘Impresse et diligenter correcte’: Johann Koelhoff’s transmission of Francesco Griffolini’s Latin translation of Chrysostom’s homilies on John,” Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 24 (2021): 263-88

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: vellum

Decoration

"Fine border (mutilated), historiated and other initials. By the same hand as Bodl. MS. Digby 231, Francesco d'Antonio del Cherico. Humanistic script." (Alexander and Temple)

Binding

19th-century

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

"Thomas Clifford, Franc. Clethero, saec. xv (?), fol. 227." (Alexander and Temple)

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 16

J. J. G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985), Cat. No. 956 [information on decoration and origin]

Availability

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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