MS. Ashmole 1516

Summary Catalogue no.: 8226

Language(s): Latin with Old High German

Rhabanus Maurus, Commentary on the Pentateuch

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 170)

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Garendon, Leicestershire, Cistercian abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Liber Sancte Marie de Geroldonia', in red near head of flyleaf opposite 1st page of text, s. xii. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

'Sum Alex. How, Somato-Xti Oxon. praet. 12 s .' (BA. 1602, Canon of Lichfield 1627). (MLGB3)

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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 1417

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1155