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MS. Broxb. 85.8

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

Former shelfmark: Broxbourne ledger no. R 893

Contents

Diurnale.

Franciscan calendar (e.g. 11 Oct., octave of St Francis); Utrecht saints Odulphus and Lebuin are added.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 138 + iv fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 148 × 103 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 30–33 lines, column space 112–5 × 35–7 mm.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

Binding

Leather over boards, early 16th century.

Blind-stamped.

History

Origin: 1517 ; Netherlandish, Gouda (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Frater Rufinus Goude petit Aue marie unum. conpleta sunt hec a fratre Rufino de gouda Anno domini 1517o in die dominica Infra octauam Epyphanie’ (fol. 7v); ‘Conpleta sunt hec et conscripta per me fratrem Ruphinum de goude pater noster’ (fol. 130v).

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) A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 132

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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