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MS. Auct. D. 5. 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 1855

Contents

Bible

Preceded by:

Epistle and Gospel list, Use of Sarum

Added, 15th century. Temporale (fol. ii); sanctorale (fol. vii); common of the saints (fol. xi); votive masses of the Virgin, etc. (fol. xii). Incipits and explicits.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: xii + 743 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 113 × 78 mm.

Layout

2 col. of 40 lines

Decoration

Fleuronnée borders, initials. Fols. 675-741 added, 15th century, middle, with good initial. (P&A iii. 450)

History

Origin: 13th century, third quarter; additions, 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'Istum librum emit magister Johannes Hychecoke de magistro Johanne Smyth tunc presbitero parochiali ecclesie Sancti Jacobi iuxta collegium Ricardi Whytyngton, cuius dictus magister J. Hychecoke est socius perpetuus pro vj marcis et xl d. anno Domini Mo ⟨CCCC⟩ lxij et 4o die mensis Junii eiusdem anni. Hijs testibus, magistro Thoma Englys et magistro Wyllelmo Twyktwyn socijs perpetuis dicti collegii. Non venale.'

'Liber Henrici Cooper ex legato magistri Johannis Hychcoke auunculi sui, cuius anime propicietur Deus Amen.'

Probably acquired in 1605-11 (cf. Sum. Cat. I. 96)

Record Sources

S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957); Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography). Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 86

Bibliography

    Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 450