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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

Origin: End of 12th century ; England (Oxfordshire or Berkshire?)

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

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Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.

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