Brasenose College MS. 3
Contents
Language(s): Latin
With marginal annotations.
Physical Description
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
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
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023: First online publication.