Brasenose College MS. 17
Contents
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
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
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2023: First online publication.