Lady Margaret Hall MS. Borough 3
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 122 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 157 × 112 mm.
Layout
23-24 long lines; written space 127 × 112 mm.
Decoration
One 4-line decorative initial in red and blue.
2- or 1-line initials in red or blue.
Binding
Seventeenth century vellum over boards.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Priory of Haspres (cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast, Arras), inscription on fol.1R.
Sir Charles Aldis, inscription dated 1825.
Charles Parry Burney.
In addition, a label with 17585 is on the upper cover, and on the front pastedown is the shelfmark 59 C 22 and an old price (£12-12-).
Donated to Lady Margaret Hall by Cynthia Mabel Borough (b.1899)
Record Sources
Description based on a valuation report by Jonathan Cooper, Jan 2016
Bibliography
N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries III (1983), 625-626
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-02: First online publication.