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

Lady Margaret Hall MS. Borough 19

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 8 leaves (a single quire, folios 122 - 129 of a larger manuscript foliated in a medieval hand)
Dimensions (leaf): 322 × 237 mm.

Layout

Double columns, 30 lines, written space 242 × 172 mm. Ruled in plummet, pricking visible.

Hand(s)

Written in brown ink in a neat minuscule.

Decoration

Five 2-line intials in red, rubrication in red.

Binding

Twentieth century vellum over boards.

History

Origin: mid-eleventh century ; Northern Italy,

Provenance and Acquisition

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), 629-630

Last Substantive Revision

2022-02: First online publication.