MS. Bodl. 86
Summary Catalogue no.: 1894
Contents
, Hexaemeron
Rubric: Liber Exameron id est sex dierum sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis episcopi
Language(s): Latin
On fol. 178v a 14th cent. hand has begun an English translation of the work
Incipit: So gret an opinion sum men han presumed
Language(s): Middle English
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 179 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.75 × 7 in.
Decoration
Fine historiated initial (coloured drawing). Fol. 1: St. Ambrose seated, writing his book which is held by an angel, with lacertine figures forming the letter T: the background is pale orange.
Other good initials: fols. 24, 37v, 49v, 74, 95, 138v.
Some initials with borders added, 15th century. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 113, pl. XI)
Binding
White leather on boards, clasp lost, 13th cent. (?) English work
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Presented by the dean and canons of Windsor in 1612.
Record Sources
Description adapted (March 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 113 [decoration, date, localization]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, decoration, provenance and acquisition]
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-03-25: Description revised to include all information in SC.