MS. Ash. Rolls 6
Summary Catalogue no.: 6658
Former shelfmark: MS. Ashmole 9
Contents
Physical Description
Form: roll
Support: parchment
Extent: 5 fols. folded to form a girdle book.
Dimensions (leaf): c. 300 × 185 mm.
(unfolded) Dimensions (leaf): c. 150 × 33 mm.
(folded) Decoration
Coloured initials, rubrics, parts of text in red and green.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Each month is headed with a reference to the year 1451 in the past tense, e.g. fol. 3v, 'anno domini 1451 incipiebat inductio primi cicli...', but a date substantially later than 1451 seems highly unlikely.
Bequeathed by him to the Ashmolean Museum.
Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.
Record Sources
Description adapted (2018) from Watson (see bibliography). Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845).
Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 37
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.