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MS. Bodl. 696

Summary Catalogue no.: 2512

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Initials. Fols. 1, 3, 7–8, 135–52, replacements of 14th century. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 162)

Binding

White leather on boards, clasps lost, 15th cent. English work.

History

Origin: 12th century, middle; added decoration, 14th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Merton College: 'Liber Collegii de Mertone ex dono magistri Thome Balsalle quondam socii ibidem' (fol. 152v). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Mr Thomas Balsalle s. p. p. 1463. He bought it in 1463. ? Given by Dr. Thomas James. (MLGB3)

With ex-libris of Thomas Balsalle. Late medieval binding. = no. 249 in 1600. = no. 1098 in Powicke. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 404

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), pp. 144, 259

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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