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Brasenose College MS. 2

Contents

Biblia Latina
Language(s): Latin

15th century recipe in English and 16th century prayers in English on front flyleaves.

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
767 leaves [+ 4 flyleaves]
Dimensions (leaf): 161 × 110 mm.

Collation

twelve gatherings (from fol. 450 onwards) marked I-XII in red in outer margin by a contemporary hand

Layout

Double column, writing space 120 × 81 mm. , written in black ink, 44 lines

Decoration

Large illuminated initials (most 7- to 16- lines, but some up to 44 lines)

Fine large penwork initials: books and chapters in alternating red and blue ink with elaborate penwork extensions in alternate colour

Binding

Original [?] wooden boards

Covered in 16th century calf with blind rolled diaper design with medallion roll; chain staple mark on upper board edge; manuscript waste flyleaves

History

Origin: 13th century, last quarter ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

MS inscription: John Spyeman [?].

Printed book label of Edmund Leigh on leaf 6v. Previous shelfmark ff.1.10.

Record Sources

Description by Sophie Floate. Previously described in H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque oxoniensibus hodie adservantur, II (1852) [sections separately paginated], Brasenose, p. 1

Bibliography

    Alexander, J. J. G., and Elżbieta. Temple. Illuminated Manuscripts in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985, no. 238

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Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.

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