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Brasenose College MS. 13

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 62)
Epitaphium Senecae
(fol. 62v)
Ps.-Seneca, De copia verborum
(fol. 71)
Augustine, De trinitate
(fol. 148)
Augustine, Confessions

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment; 191 leaves including 2 flyleaves (the whole incorrectly foliated)
Dimensions (leaf): 309 × 214 mm.

Layout

Double column, writing space 223 × 150 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in dark brown ink by various hands

Decoration

Decoration, including several very large initials, in red and blue, four of which are touched in gold (two each on fol. 56r. and fol.134r)

Binding

18th/19th century calf over boards; blind tooled panel design.

History

Origin: late 12th/early 13th century ; Northern France

Provenance and Acquisition

Convent of Austin Friars, Droitwich. MLGB3: 'An inscription s.xiv on fol. Iii verso has been read no doubt correctly as "Iste est liber [fratrum] Iohannis [Dentone senioris et iunioris ordinis] sancti augustini conuentus [Wichie] in quo contintentur …" but the bracketed words are not now quite certainly legible by uv light, as a reagent has been used.

"Was a caucio in the ... chest a.d. 13r [?]" (nearly legible inscription on fol. iii recto.')

Given by William Smith (or Smyth), founder of Brasenose College. Manuscript inscription on folio '2': Liber Aule regie & Collegij de Brasenose Ex dono Gul. 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, pp. 4-5

Availability

This manuscript is held at Brasenose College. Please direct any enquiries to Brasenose College Library.

Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.

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