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MS. Ashmole 5

Summary Catalogue no.: 6655

Contents

1.
Nicholas of Lynn, Kalendarium
Language(s): Latin
2.
Astronomical tables.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniature (drawing).

Diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 680)

fol. 1r, initial D, Trinity.

full border, floral designs, dragon, animal masks, tonsured cleric, kneeling, hands joined in prayer, supporting a scroll. In the lower margin two winged grotesques with human heads support a shield with a coat of arms.

History

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

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. 3–4
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1116

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 194b

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.