Brasenose College MS. 6
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
241 leaves [+ 1 front flyleaf and 2 final flyleaves]
Dimensions (leaf): 338 × 236 mm.
Foliation: Manuscript foliation - misnumbered, jumps from 199-300.
Layout
38 lines, double column, written space 248 × 165 mm. Marginal prickings.
Decoration
Chapter headings and running titles in red. 11 half-page decorative initials in red, blue and green with flowery extensions and internal dotted ornaments. 4 line initials in red, blue and green.
Binding
18th century calf; blind tooled panel design with decorative rolls; boards loose.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Notes by Thomas Gascoigne, chancellor of Oxford University on ff. 80v and 136r.
Manuscript inscription on first flyleaf: Liber Aulae regie & collegij de Brasenose ex dono Magri Dowse. [unidentified]
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. 2
Bibliography
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2023: First online publication.