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MS. Ashmole 391

Summary Catalogue no.: 6732

Summary Catalogue no.: 6733

Summary Catalogue no.: 6854b

Summary Catalogue no.: 6872

Summary Catalogue no.: 6873

Summary Catalogue no.: 6874

Physical Description

Composite: six parts

MS. Ashmole 391 – Part 1

Contents

Medical and astrological treatises
Language(s): English and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 16th century ; English

MS. Ashmole 391 – Part 2

Contents

John Somer, Astronomical calendar (English version)
Language(s): Middle English and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniatures, diagrams. Table of dominical letters starting in 1440, fol. 5 (Pächt and Alexander iii. 904)

Miniature, fol. 3: Zodiac man

Miniature, fol. 8v: blood-letting man

History

Origin: c. 1440 ; English

MS. Ashmole 391 – Part 3

Contents

Johannes Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio,

printed book (Bod-inc.L-103(2)) [Heidelberg: Printer of the Vocabularius, after 1 Apr. 1488]

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: after 1488 ; German

MS. Ashmole 391 – Part 4

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 1598 ; English

MS. Ashmole 391 – Part 5

Contents

Nicholas of Lynn, Kalendarium
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniatures.

Diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 678, pl. LXX)

History

Origin: 14th century, end (after 1387) ; English

MS. Ashmole 391 – Part 6

Contents

Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good border.

Initial.

Diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 802)

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Additional Information

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). Additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000.
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 295–6
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 297–8
Quarto Catalogue, col. 299
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1118
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1121
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1122

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides) [part 2]
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides) [part 5]

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    Late Medieval English Scribes

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 188

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.