MS. Auct. D. 2. 18
Summary Catalogue no.: 2125
Contents
Gospels
With the prologues of st. Jerome. Blank margins of fols. 121–2, 152–3 have been cut off.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 154 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 13.75 × 9.875 in.
Binding
Black leather on boards with blind tooling, clasps lost, English (?) late 15th cent. work
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'George Tauerner[?] clarke chapelayne to the ryght honorable Lord Latymer of Snape aw this booke,' 16th cent.
'Roberti Clay Eboracensis de Clayhouse'
'Ex dono Roberti Clay Mertonensis & S. Th. Doctoris,' about 1610–15.
Record Sources
Description adapted (June 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 373 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-06-16: Description revised to include all information in SC.