MS. Ashmole 1431
Summary Catalogue no.: 7523
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine miniatures (coloured drawings). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 50, pl. VI)
History
Origin: c. 1070–1100 ; English, Canterbury, St. Augustine's: de librario sancti Augustini Cantuar. D. 14 Gª. 2º. (verso of flyleaf, in a 15th-century hand).
Provenance and Acquisition
Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "de librario sancti Augustini Cantuar. D. 14 G a . 2 o ." (verso of flyleaf), s. xv. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from 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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (37 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 6: Fragments - Office Books, Rituals, Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 256
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.