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University College MS. 168

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1.
Collection of commentaries on Song of Songs;
2.
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735, Commentaries (Song of Songs, the Gospels of Mark and Luke)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: vellum

Decoration

"Good historiated initial. Fine borders in an unusual style, fine and other initials. Fine penwork initials. Marginal drawings (catchwords), later pencil sketches, saec. xvi." (Alexander and Temple, p. 42)

Binding

Contemporary binding of white leather over bevelled wooden boards flush to page edge, strap trimmed from upper board.

History

Origin: 15th century ; England.

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 46
J. J. G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985), Cat. No. 419 [information on decoration and origin]

Availability

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

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.