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

Brasenose College MS. 5

Contents

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

Origin: Mid 13th century ; England (possibly Oxford because of revisions in text)

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.

Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.