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MS. Bodl. 753

Summary Catalogue no.: 2523

Contents

2.
Gregory of Nazianus, Orationes
Language(s): Latin
3.
Bede, Commentary on the Catholic Epistles
Language(s): Latin
4.
Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on the Song of Songs (incomplete)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine borders, initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1086)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Balliol College: (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Arms of: George Neville (d. 1476), Archbishop of York, who presumably gave it to Balliol College. = no. 129 at Balliol in 1600 (T. James, Ecloga). Dr Thomas James gave it to Bodley. (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. 409

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.