MS. Add. C. 260

Summary Catalogue no.: 30279

Calendar

Pages 197-208 of a larger volume.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 6 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): c. 315 × 225 mm.

Dimensions (written): c. 230 × 140 mm.

Layout

1 col., 28-31 lines.

Decoration

Good initials. (P&A iii. 165)

Coloured initials and headings.

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter (before 1161 or 1173 (?)) ; English, Canterbury, Christ Church

Provenance and Acquisition

Feasts of the translation of St Edward (instituted 1161) and of Thomas Becket (canonized 1173) have been added, suggesting the original entries were made before these dates.

'Dedicatio ecclesie Christi Cant.', 4 May, deleted, but other entries confirm the provenance (see Summary Catalogue).

Referenced in 1884.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, Pächt and Alexander, and the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 776

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 777

Bibliography

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 25

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 165

Online resources:

MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

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