MS. Bodl. 563
Summary Catalogue no.: 2347
Physical Description
Binding
Blind-tooled, centrepiece Pearson no. x; Oxford, early seventeenth century (centrepiece in use ?1600–1610)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Part 1 acquired by 1602; parts 2 and 3 acquired then or soon after.
MS. Bodl. 563 – Part 1 (fols. 1–191)
Contents
Fols. 185va-191vb: table of distinctions.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 45 lines, written space c. 190 × 120 mm.
Decoration
Red-and-blue initials with flourishing in red and blue at the beginning of each alphabetical section; elsewhere alternating blue and red initials with flourishing in the contrasting colour.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Identified by Madan and Craster with a manuscript catalogued at New College, Oxford, by Thomas James (Ecloga, no. 239, ); Madan and Craster further identified James as the probable donor of the manuscript to the Bodleian, although this was queried by Hunt (Summary Catalogue I, p. 85, ). But the volume of Byard's Distinctions given to New College by William Wykeham had a different second folio (‘Congregare’), and so cannot be identified with the present manuscript ( pace R. M. Thomson and J. G. Clark, The university and college libraries of Oxford (2015), UO70.160).
Acquired by 1602 when listed in the first Library catalogue.
MS. Bodl. 563 – Part 2 (fols. 192–197)
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
1–2 cols., c. 23–26 lines, written space c. 170–5 × c. 125 mm.
Hand(s)
Perhaps written by ‘Herford’, perhaps John Herford OP (on whom see Emden).
Decoration
Coloured blue initials.
History
Provenance
Fol. 197v, cautio notes: 1480 by William Wryght for 8s.: in 1481 by the same in the Selton chest, for 8s. (2o folio ‘num’), redeemed in 1482 for 6s.; in 1484 deposited by the same in the same chest for 8s., and redeemed in 1485 by mr. Crow (probably Richard Crow) for 6s. Monogram of Thomas Hunt, the university stationer.
MS. Bodl. 563 – Part 3
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Otherwise known only in Le Mans, Bibliothèque municipale, MS. 3, . The present copy lacks the first quire, containing the first eighteen chapters, and ends, apparently complete, at Le Mans, MS. 3, col. dxxxvi (the le Mans text continuing to col. dclv.) Here divided into divided into eleven books (ten in le Mans).
Followed, fols. 350vb-353rb, by a list of the 618 chapters, numbered as far as 615, with a note of the quires in which they occur.
List of Sunday gospels from Pentecost to Advent
Physical Description
Layout
Written above top line. 2 cols., 39 lines, written space 170 × 120 mm.
Decoration
Alternating red and blue-green capitals, with penwork in the contrasting colour.
Accompanying Material
Endleaves (fols. i-ii, 354–355) now MS. Lat. misc. d. 48, fols. 1, 2, 11, 12.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2019-08-15: Description revised with reference to Watson, SC, and examination of MS.