Brasenose College MS. 17

Language(s): Latin

Genealogical chronicle roll of the kings of England to Edward IV

Physical Description

Form: roll-codex

Support: Parchment

Extent: 9 or 10 membranes. Folded and bound uncut so as to form a codex of 26 double leaves. 26 leaves [+ 2 front flyleaves of parchment, 1 at back] 8018 x 153mm, folded to form 222 x 153mm

Layout

Text in double columns.

Hand(s)

Small and precise secretary hand in brown ink, with decoration in red, green and blue ink

Decoration

By the same illuminator and scribe as CCC MS 207.

Large illuminated roundel at head with Adam, Eve and the Serpent; 26 small illuminated roundels.

2 large illuminated initials in burnished gold, 80 small initials burnished gold, c. 250 illuminated crowns in burnished gold,

Binding

17th century red goat over boards; gold tooled design.

History

Origin: Between 1470 and 1472 ; England (London or Westminster)

Provenance and Acquisition

Manuscript inscription on flyleaf: "Ex donis Petri Shakerkey de Holme in Com: Cestris Armig: 1724". i.e. Peter Shakerley, c.1650-1726, matriculated Brasenose 1667.

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. 6

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 758

Alexander & Temple, no. 624

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.

Data

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