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

MS. Bodl. 562

Summary Catalogue no.: 2346

Contents

Language(s): Anglo-Norman

1.
Britton (legal treatise)
2.
Legal treatises (fragments)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Binding

Stamped leather on boards with busts of sāvel, gedion, IOSVA, sol, Lyna, satvrnvs, etc., and bosses of brass, clasps lost, 2nd half of the 16th cent. English work.

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'In Dei nomine amen ego. W . T . [?] nuper generosus Clementis hospicij', i.e. Clement's Inn, London (15th cent.: fol. 104a).

Presented by Edward Fleetwood in 1601.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.