University College MS. 129

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Support: vellum

Decoration

"Fine border, initials, added to an Italian MS. with penwork initials, saec. xiii2. Mutilated." (Alexander and Temple, p. 70)

Binding

Contemporary white leather over bevelled wooden boards (lacking clasps and pins).

History

Origin: 14th century ; England; Winchester

Provenance and Acquisition

"olim capellæ S. Elizabthæ juxta Winton. ex sono Joh. Pountoyse 'quondam ep. Winton.' postea Ricardi Neuport, et anno 1667 Gulielmi Shippen." (Coxe) "Given by John de Pontisarra (Pontoise), bp. of Winchester (d. 1304), to the Chapel of the Hospital of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Winchester, fols. I, 378v. William Shippen, fellow, rector of Stockport, Cheshire (d. 1693), fol. i." (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. 37

J. J. G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985), Cat. No. 714 [information on decoration and origin]

Availability

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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