MS. Ashmole 1504
Summary Catalogue no.: 7537
Contents
Pattern book.
Language(s): English
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good miniatures (coloured drawings). Copied partly from German models (Dürer, the grotesque alphabet of 1464, etc.). Contains the arms of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, d. 1513, and of the Emperor Charles V (after 1519). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1181, pls. CIX-CX)
History
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 (105 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 187
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.