MS. Holkham misc. 23
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
Decrees and Acts of the Council of Basle,
sessions I-XXIV (1431-1437) (pr. Mansi, XXIX, cols. 1-133); omitting the following sections of the pr. text: sessio I, 10, sessio IV, 1, 2, 7; sessio XIII, 1; sessio XXI, 5.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Secundo Folio: non ficta
Form: codex
Support: Paper; watermarks hand, cf. Briquet no. 10662, steer's head, cf. Briquet, no. 14313.
Extent: iii (modern paper) + 77 + iii (modern paper) leaves.
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 210-5 × 130 mm.
Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil: i-iii, 1-80.
Collation
Too tightly bound for collation.
Layout
35-40 lines, written within frame-ruling; in 1 column
Hand(s)
semi-cursive
Binding
Typical Holkham binding; the spine lettered in gilt 'S.S.R. | ECCLESIA[] | DECRETA | &c. || MS. | 1420 &c.'
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Signed 'T. Coke' in the lower fore-edge corner of fol. 1r.
Bookplate of 'THOMAS WILLIAM COKE'; formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 174.
Record Sources
Draft description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s