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

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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. (P&A 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

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.