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

Brasenose College MS. 3

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: 364 leaves [+ 3 front flyleaves, 1 paper, 2 parchment, 3 back flyleaves, 2 parchment, 1 paper,]
Dimensions (leaf): 156 × 109 mm.

Layout

Double columns, written space 117 × 75 mm. ; written in dark brown ink, 51 lines, ruled, chapters and running titles in alternating red and blue ink.

Decoration

2 full page painted initials.

Large half-page penwork initials in red and blue ink; marginal extensions in contrasting colour

Binding

17th century calf with gold tooled decoration.

History

Origin: 13th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Manuscript inscription at head of first parchment flyleaf: "Mnemosumon [...?]Gulielmi Dunelm: de quo [...?]".

Given by Nicholas Wilton to William Richardson 1616. Manuscript inscription on first parchment flyleaf: "Manuscripta haec biblia Hierony: Nich: Wilton; ex dono [...] Guli: Rich[ard]son .... cum p[er]catione [...] anno do[min]i 1616 [...] N: Wilton."

Given by Walter Chetwynd de Ingestre to Richard Harrison, canon of Lichfield, 1667, who gave it to BNC. Manuscript inscriptionon verso of paper flyleaf: "Liber Aulae Regiae et Collegij de Brasen-nose ex dono Ricardi Harrison Ecclesiae Cathedralis Lichfeldin[?] Canonici et hujus Collegij quondam alumni." Further inscription on verso of 3rd flyleaf: "Liber Ric: Harrison Clerici: ex dono honoratissimi viri Gualteri Chetwynde de Ingestre in Cont. Stafford: Armigeri... Ao. D. 1667."

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 & Temple, no. 187.

Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.