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

Brasenose College MS. 11

Contents

Language(s): Latin

3. (fol. 34)
Paschasius , Epistola ad Fredegardum
Incipit: Perlectis litteris tuis
4. (fol. 42)
Paschasius, Epistola ad Fredugardum – In expositione Mathei 26, 26
Incipit: Audiant qui volunt extenuare
5. (fol. 45)
Guitmond, De veritate corporis et sanguinis Christ
Incipit: Ad rem hiis temporibus necessariam
6. (fol. 78)
Text on redemption
Incipit: Magnitudo celestium
7.
Augustine
(fol. 113)
De urbis excidio
(fol. 117)
Hugh of St Victor, Tractatus de humilitate (Misc. i. 172)
Incipit: Duobus modis diabolus
(fol. 118)
Epistola 243 ad Lætum
Incipit: Legi epistolam
Explicit: quos gremio continet||

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: 119 leaves [+ 2 front and 2 back flyleaves]; wants first leaf
Dimensions (leaf): 257 × 192 mm.

Layout

Written space 175 × 135 mm. Double column. Brown ink, 39 lines, ruled

Decoration

2-, 4- or 6- line decorated initials in red and blue ink, some rubrication.

Priestly caricatures in margin of 82v, 83v, 84v, 87v, 88r, 88v, 93v.

Binding

18th century calf over boards; blind tooled panel design.

History

Origin: 15th century ; England (?) or France (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Manuscript inscription at head of first leaf: "Liber Aul(a)e regi(a)e de Collegij de Brasenose ex dono reuere(n)di p(atr)is D(omi)ni Willim Smith fu(n)datoris eisde(m)". William Smith.

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. 3

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.