MS. Bodl. 389
Summary Catalogue no.: 2218
Contents
Language(s): Latin
, Legenda aurea
Final rubric: Explicit Legenda Sanctorum
With prologue, list of contents, index of subjects, and some notes.
On fol. v are a few added miracles, and on fol. 227v an extract from the Polychronicon of Higden.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vi + 230 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 12 × 8 in.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 759)
Binding
Early 15th-century sewing and boards, re-covered with white leather.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: catalogue of 1506 (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.
Record Sources
Description adapted (Oct. 2022) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 759
Summary Catalogue (1922)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-10: Revised to incorporate all information in printed catalogues.