MS. Add. C. 73
Summary Catalogue no.: 28970
Contents
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 155v)
Colophon: Ego Thomas Murchius propria manu scripsi papie Anno 5o meorum laborum 1493 de mense Septembris Dum artibus et Medicine operam do
He wrote fols. 157–72v later; other hands have written over his writing on fols. 157–69v.
2. (fol. 157)
Rubric: Scriptum quoddam vbi sunt collecta aliqua a ... magistro Cometio Hispano Portugalensi super Questiones Methaphysicę Antonii Andreę
Incipit: Duplex est processus
Followed by some philosophical notes.
3. (fol. 172v)
Incipit: Semina mandaui
A Latin verse translation of the Italian poem 'Io semmai el campo'.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 173 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 203 × 120 mm.
Layout
1 col., 33 lines.
Decoration
Borders, initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 746)
Coloured borders (one with partly erased coat of arms), coloured initials, rubrics.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Arms, fol. 3: gules, a lion or, holding an unidentfied object. Possibly of Thomas Murchius.
Bought from H. T. Wake on Dec. 8, 1869 for £1 5s.
Record Sources
Adapted (2018) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts; Pächt and Alexander; and the Summary Catalogue (1905).
Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 19
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 746
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.