MS. Bodl. 399
Summary Catalogue no.: 2230
Contents
(fol. 118)
Fragment of La lumere as lais, VI.3.vi-ix, early fourteenth century; sister fragment in MS. Fr. c. 4, fol. 2.
Language(s): Anglo-Norman
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vi + 118 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 247 × 170 mm.
Layout
2 cols., 37–38 lines, column space 195–205 × 60 mm.
Hand(s)
Two scribes: (1) fols. 1–31v, (2) fols. 32–116v.
Decoration
Coloured initials, rubrics.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
‘Pus ke deu crea cest mond | Cinc mil anz ale sen sunt. | E douz cenz un sul a dire | Deske nasquit nostre Sire. | Aiostez iles anz iesu | Dunc ert li numbres tut seu. | Pus ke deu deuint homme | Mil. c.c.c. anz est la summe’ (fol. 104v, by the hand of fols. 32–116v).
‘Donum Francisci Cleeri Militis’ (fol. iii), between 1605 and 1611.
Record Sources
Description adapted (2018) from the following sources:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 83 [physical description, origin, provenance]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, provenance]
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.