A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Bodl. 292

Summary Catalogue no.: 2446

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–149 || fols. 150–175 || fols. 176–411

MS. Bodl. 292 – Part 1

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good border, initials. Fols. 148v-149v written in humanistic script by 'V.f.I'(Pächt and Alexander iii. 988)

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

MS. Bodl. 292 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Ps.-Seneca; Ps.-Paul , Letters (with commentary)
Language(s): Latin
2.
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (with commentary)
Language(s): Latin
3.
Commentary on Seneca, Declamationes
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine border, initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1085)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; English

MS. Bodl. 292 – Part 3

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine borders, historiated initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 612, pl. LXIV)

History

Origin: 14th century, second quarter ; English

Provenance

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Benedictine abbey of St Alban: The mark 'De studio Abbatis' (fol. 179v) in same hand as in Bodl. MS Laud Misc. 264. Chainmark shows at head and foot of fol. 176. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Given by Sir George More in 1604. (MLGB3)

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.