A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Ashmole 1763A

Summary Catalogue no.: 7161

Summary Catalogue no.: 8463

Summary Catalogue no.: 8465jj

Summary Catalogue no.: 8465oo

Former shelfmark: MS. Ashmole 1763

Former shelfmark: MS. Ashmole 1164

Former shelfmark: MS. Ashmole 1296

Former shelfmark: MS. Ashmole 1300

Book of Pedigrees and guardbook of miscelleaneous documents from the Ashmole collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: Fols. 1-31 used by Ashmole for a 'book of Pedigrees'; remaining leaves used in the 19th century as a guardbook for loose documents and papers from the Ashmole collection. Only the medieval items are noticed here.

MS. Ashmole 1763A – fol. 40r

Contents

Inquisition post mortem of John Teryngham.

Contemporary copy. Formerly MS. Ashmole 1164; formerly housed with MS. Ashmole 1165 = MS. Ash. Rolls 30.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: sheet
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1465 or soon after ; English

MS. Ashmole 1763A – fol. 40v

Contents

Note of the descent of an estate in Lynforde, from one Osborne to “Thomas Tyryngnam my father, as by thes dedes more playnely apperythe.” Found loose in one of Lhuyd’s MSS.

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: sheet
Support: paper

History

Origin: 16th century, early ; English

MS. Ashmole 1763A - fols. 41r-42v

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Expenses of obits celebrated in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 1477–1478.

Thirty-three items. Formerly MS. Ashmole 1296.

Physical Description

Form: sheet
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1477-78 ; English

Provenance

MS. Ashmole 1763A - fol. 44r (K)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Will and last testament of Emmota Burges of New Windsor, 1447–8

Formerly MS. Ashmole 1300. Seal and labels kept as MS. Ash. Rolls 5(4).

Physical Description

Form: sheet
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1447-8 ; English

Provenance

MS. Ashmole 1763A – fol. 57

Contents

(fol. 57r) (item AA)
Saints' Lives (bifolium)
Language(s): Irish
Tucaid innarbtha Muchata a Raithin

Ed. C. Plummer, Bethada Náem nÉrenn (Oxford, 1922), I.300–16.

Passion of Marcellinus

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Initial. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1283)

History

Origin: 15th century (?) ; Irish

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2023) 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) and supplementary sources; for fol. 57 see Brian Ó Cuiv, Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries, 2 vols (Dublin, 2001–3), I.1–2.

Last Substantive Revision

2023-03: Add description of fols. 40-42.