A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Bodl. 468

Summary Catalogue no.: 2488

Contents

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 7)
Hervaeus Natalis, Quodlibet,

1–4: 2, fol. 24v, 3, fol. 85v, 4, fol. 110v.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 165 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 288 × 210 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 55 lines, column space 215 × 70–5 mm.

Decoration

Spaces left for initials.

Binding

Blind-ruled whittawed leather binding over boards, 15or or 16th century, rebacked.

History

Origin: 1455

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Expliciunt questiones de celo ... quas ... scripsit frater Johannes bouts [or bonts] et finiunt Anno dominj millesimo quadringentesimo lvo in crastino apostolorum beatorum Simonis et Jude ...’ (fol. 162).

Windsor, collegiate chapel of St George.

Presented by the dean and canons in 1612.

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. 92 [physical description, origin, provenance]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, acquisition]

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2018-11-23: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson and SC.