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Brasenose College MS. 57

Guardbook of fragments

Brasenose College MS. 57 no.1

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 6 fols

Layout

2 cols, 43 lines

Decoration

Illuminated manuscript

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath B 3.6-8

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 789

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos. 2-9

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Digestum vetus,

[from same ms as above]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 8 fols

Decoration

Illuminated manuscript

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath D 1.1,3-5

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 790

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.10-11

Contents

Language(s): Latin

J. Duns Scotus, Expo. Primi libri Sententiarum (d.7-8)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 fols

Layout

2 cols, 54 lines

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath D 1.2

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 791

Brasenose College MS. 57 no.12

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Decretum Gratiani (pars 2, c.vii, Q.1)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 leaf

History

Origin: 13th century

Provenance

Taken from UB/S I 81

Brasenose College MS. 57 no.13

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 leaf

History

Origin: Date not given

Provenance

Taken from UB/S I 81

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.14-19

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 6 fols

Layout

2 cols, 51 lines

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath D 5.8

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 893

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.20-21

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 225 mm.

Layout

2 cols, 52 lines. Written space 250 × 155 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in low-grade gothic rotunda bookhand

Decoration

Red or blue paraphs

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance

Taken from UB/S II 11-12

Bibliography

    R. Thomson, Catalogue of medieval manuscripts of Latin commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries, no. 226

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.22-23

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Codex Justiniani,

from same ms as pastedowns of UB/S I 15,33, 83 [Ker 334]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 fols

Layout

2 cols

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath A 4.13

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 344

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos. 24-25

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Isidore, Etymologies (?) ("partly identical with bk6, capts xvii and xix" )

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

History

Origin: 12th century

Provenance

Not known.

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.26-27

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves
Musical Notation:

Notation.

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance

Not known.

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos. 28-29

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 fos

Layout

2 cols, 51 lines

History

Origin: 14th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath F 4.9

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 1649

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.30-31

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

History

Origin: 14th century

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.32-33

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 fos

Layout

2 cols, 39 lines

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance

Taken from UB/S III 20

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 345

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.34-35?

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Distinctions on the Psalter

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

History

Origin: 13th century

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.36-37

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

History

Origin: 14th century

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.38-39

Contents

Language(s): Latin

"Heyleus [?] in Decreta" [? Illegible]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

History

Origin: 14th century

Brasenose College MS. 57 no.42

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Musical notation.

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.43-44

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 leaves

History

Origin: 12th century ; English

Brasenose College MS. 57 no.47

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 leaf

History

Origin: 13th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath M 5.3

Brasenose College MS. 57 no.48

Contents

Language(s): French

French romance or history in prose

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 leaf

History

Origin: 14th century ; French

Provenance

Taken from UB/S III 4. Bookplate of William Hutchins on ms.

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.49-50

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 fr.

Layout

3 cols.

History

Origin: 13th/14th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath D 8.12

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 692

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.51-52

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 fols

Layout

2 cols, 47+ lines

Hand(s)

Decoration

History

Origin: 13th century

Provenance

Taken from Lath B 9.8

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 342

Brasenose College MS. 57 nos.54-55

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Service book

According to Ker, the pastedowns from UB/S I 50 2 "leaves from Sarum Horae were used as pastedowns; these have been removed and are kept at shelfmark UB/S III 67(5)" [see Ker, Pastedowns, no. 336].

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: "2 strips"

History

Origin: Date not given.

Provenance

Taken from UB/S I 50

Brasenose College MS. 57 no.201

Contents

Language(s): Old English

Aelfric, Homily I

Fragment of a single leaf, written space 102 x 37mm., written in dark brown ink in Anglo Saxon, fragment of 22 lines (eleven on either side) of the first of the Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon church (Aelfric's homily De initio creaturae).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: Fragment of single leaf
Dimensions (fragment): 147 × 37 mm.

History

Origin: 11th century, first half ; England

Provenance

Taken from Lath M 6.15 (mid-16th century English binding with small centrepiece). Ker, Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon, no. 352 located it as being in Latham M.6.15 from which it has been subsequently removed.

Bibliography

    Ker, Pastedowns, no. 352

Additional Information

Record Sources

Draft and partial description by Sophie Floate.

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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