Brasenose College MS. 5
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: 440 leaves [+6 flyleaves]
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 145 mm.
Condition
Lacking some leaves after f.167. Initial on leaf 34 mutilated, some gilt slightly rubbed.
Layout
Double column, written space 138 × 91 mm. Chapter headings in red and blue.
Hand(s)
Brown ink in gothic bookhand.
Decoration
70 large illuminated initials in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds.
Red, black and blue ink diagrams of the Holy Land, Solomon's Temple, tribes of Israel etc.
Binding
17th century reversed calf binding.
History
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, pp. 1-2
Bibliography
Alexander & Temple, no. 181.
Hanna, Ralph. “The Wycliffite Translators' Vulgate Manuscript: The Evidence from Mark.” Medium Ævum, vol. 86, no. 1, 2017, pp. 60–90. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26396498. Accessed 19 Oct. 2020.
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2023: First online publication.