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MS. Bodl. 832

Summary Catalogue no.: 2538

Contents

1.
Thomas Sampson, Modus dictandi
Language(s): Latin
2.
John Leland, Distinctiones rhetoricae
Language(s): Latin
3.
Treatises on metre and versification
Language(s): Latin
4.
Bede, De arte metrica
Language(s): Latin
5.
Servius, De centum metris
Language(s): Latin
6.
Theological notes
Language(s): Latin
7.
Treatises on manners and nurture
Language(s): English and Latin
8.
Astrological treatise
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Hand(s)

Compiled and written by Johannes Long alias Sampford, chaplain of St Catherine's Chapel, Bridport

Decoration

Miniatures (marginal drawings by the scribe), initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1073)

Marginal shaded drawings of human figures and heads.

History

Origin: before 1470, with additions of 1471–1472 ; English

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. 417
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 418

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 150a

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.