MS. Ashmole 1522
Summary Catalogue no.: 6750
Summary Catalogue no.: 7027
Contents
Mathematical and optical treatises.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Merton, Surrey, Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber ecclesie beate Marie de Merton ... traditus domino Iohanni Gysbom. canonico eiusdem loci et scolari oxon. per magistrum Iohannem Kyngeston' priorem de Merton ...". "anno domini millesimo cccc mo quinquagesimo sexto" (fol. 202v). (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 (35 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 208
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.