MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 280
Summary Catalogue no.: 18861
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine historiated border. fol. 2r
- Type full border
- Subject Rectangular border in gold frame with white vine-stem decoration on red, green, blue and gold background. Four panels in gold frames: (upper margin) crown over IHS monogram; (right and left margins) hand holding branches with flowers and leaves, surrounded by a scroll with lettering on silver background (oxidised, illegible); laurel wreath with a coat of arms (argent a lion rampant gules holding a sword argent with overall a bend azure with three flowers or with a black ecclesiastical hat; initials 'BT').
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 545, pl. LI) 7- to 8-line gold initials with white vine-stem decoration on red, green, blue and gold background on fols. 2r, 6r, 14v, 33r, 52r, 69v, 93v, 102v, 122v.
History
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.