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Brasenose College MS. 21

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Charters of St Neots.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 55 leaves, 2 front flyleaves, 1 back flyleaf, all parchment.
Dimensions (leaf): 221 × 151 mm.

Layout

Written space 155 × 102 mm. , single column. Dark brown ink, 24 lines.

Decoration

2-line initials in red ink, capitals touched with red, some calligraphic headings with decorative extensions in red.

Binding

15th century deer over wooden boards, ties pegged into boards, pinkish colour remains.

History

Origin: second half of 15th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

From the Benedictine priory of St Neot.

Manuscript inscription on inside of upper board: Thomas Marchall his booke of Charlbury in the […?]. Further repetition of his name on first free endpaper (16th century).

Later inscription on same leaf "Liber Aulae Regiae & Collegij de Brasen-nose". Beneath: "DD Henricus Allen A.M. de Charlbury in Com. Oxon. Ao. D[omi]ni 1698." Possibly Henry Allen who matriculated BNC 1672? Manuscript inscription of Robert Brookes on verso of leaf 7. College bookplate.

Record Sources

Description by Sophie Floate. Previously described in H. O. Coxe, H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (Oxford, 1852) II [individual sections separately paginated], Brasenose College, p. 7

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.