MS. Auct. D. 4. 10
Summary Catalogue no.: 3563
Contents
Bible
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 445, pl. XL:
Fine and good borders.
Fine and good historiated initials.
Fine and good other initials.
Good diagrams.
Binding
Brown leather, blind-tooled, 17th-cent. English work.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: '. . . Est liber sancte Marie Rading' de quo qui fraudem fecerit anathema [sit]' (fol. 600v pasted-on s. xiii–xiv). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Richard Okeham. Nicholas Okeham. Harbert Okeham. Ralph Ironside. Gilbert Ironside. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1937). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.