University College MS. 86

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: vellum

Decoration

"Good miniature. Fine initials. Fine penwork initials. Marginal sketch, fol. 267. Fols. 189-243 an insertion of saec. xiii in. with fine penwork initials." (Alexander and Temple)

Binding

14th-century tawed leather over wooden boards to page edge. Originally had seven clasps.

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; England; Durham (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

"olim armarioli communis Dunelmensis, postea Johannis de Kelton." (Coxe) Give by Charles Hales. (Note in Duke Humphrey copy of Coxe) "Ex libris of Durham cathedral and pressmark 'Q', saec. xv. fol. 1. (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. 26

J. J. G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985), Cat. No. 265 [information on decoration and origin]

Availability

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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