A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Auct. F. 4. 12

Summary Catalogue no.: 2905

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Hand(s)

Script attributable to Jacobos Diassorinos of Rhodes .

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1331:

Border (wreath for arms not filled in).

Initial in Greek style.

Binding

Green velvet, with brocade clasp and stamped ornament on the gilt edges, re-backed, 16th cent. English (?) work: by the same binder and scribe as no. 3080.

History

Origin: 16th century, middle ; French, Fontainebleau/Paris

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Thomas Cecil, earl of Exeter, in May 1618.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima recensionem codicum Graecorum continens, Quarto Catalogues I, 1883, repr. with corrections 1969).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.