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MS. Bodl. 418

Summary Catalogue no.: 2317

Contents

Franciscus de Mayronis, Conflatus in primum librum sententiarum
Incipit: Circa Prohemium primi libri
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 157 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 207 mm.

Layout

2 cols., c. 58–70 lines, column space 210 × 60 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Johannes Steenhusen.

Decoration

Good initials. Written in Montpellier in 1440, fol. 157v, but the initials added later. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 743)

Binding

Stamped leather on boards, Oxford early 17th cent. work.

History

Origin: 1440, added decoration c. 1475 ; French, Montpellier (script) ; Italian, Lombardy (?) (decoration)

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 157v: ‘explicit reportacio ... per manus Johannis steenhusen in montepessulano in ordine uel conuentu minorum pro fratre matheo de ficecko ordinis fratrum minorum. Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo altra[sic] die post conuersionem sancti pauli etc.’

Fol. 160 (flyleaf): ‘Iste liber est mei magistri francisci de careto ordinis minorum Asignatum fratri Francisco \de Sax(el)lo/ dissipullo meo sibi Asignatum pro sui studi⟨ … ⟩ papie [Pavia] incoati anno domini MoCCCColxxv die die vero decima quarta madij’.

Fol. 157v: ‘iste liber est ad vsum fratris franciscj de saxello ordinis minorum prouincie Janue [Genoa] et conuentus cultismilij [Cortemilia] Asignatum sibi per magistrum franciscum de Careto euisdem conuentus ac prouincie cuius anima requiescat in pace et hoc anno domini 1475. papie’.

Presented by Sir Richard Fermor of Somerton in 1603.

MS. Bodl. 418 - endleaves (fols. i, 160)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century

Additional Information

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. 85 [contents, physical description, origin, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , II (1970), no. 743 [decoration]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [flyleaves, acquisition]
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 305

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