MS. Ashmole 1516
Summary Catalogue no.: 8226
Contents
Language(s): Latin with Old High German
,Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 170)
History
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).
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.