MS. Broxb. 85.6

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Former shelfmark: Broxbourne ledger no. R 1415

Psalter

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iv + 227 + i folios

Dimensions (leaf): 127 × 90 mm.

Layout

1 col., 17 lines, written space 87–90 × 60 mm.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

Binding

Leather over boards, early 16th century.

Blind-stamped.

History

Origin: 1501 ; German, Trier (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Hoc opus egregiatus suscipe sancta maria […] anno domini 1501 sabato post dominicam iubilate videlicet octaua die mensis maij. Pro scriptore f.b.b. vnum aue maria in caritate christi’

Carthusian house of St. Alban, Trier (inscription, inside front cover)

J. P. R. Lyell

Albert Ehrman (1890–1969)

Presented to the Bodleian by his son, John Ehrman, in 1978 through the Friends of the National Libraries.

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2019) from the following sources:

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 131 [contents, physical description, date, provenance]

Peter Kidd, Checklist of Medieval Western Manuscripts Acquired 1916- (typescript, c. 1996–2000) [provenance]

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-08-08: Description revised with reference to Watson.

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