MS. Lat. misc. b. 25
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from known sources, 1933–65 and n.d. (the quotations of soucres below are from notes in Ker's hand). 68 leaves (fol. 67 arrived in two parts).
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Handed on by Prof. A. G. Watson, Dr. Ker's literary executor, in accordance with Dr. Ker's wishes, 1984
MS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 1
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‘Part of lot 1429 sale at Wroxton abbey [Oxon.] May 1933’
MS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 2
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Damaged seal
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‘I was given this indenture in 1942 by Mr. James Fairhurst ’
MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 3
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‘Fragments given to N. R. K. by Frederic S. Ferguson … in 1954’, with a list of eight items (two now missing) : mainly whole leaves, at least some recovered from bindings, of five Latin manuscripts, late 12th- to early 14th-century, including:
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 4
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‘Small scraps from 1955’, fragments of negligible size perhaps all retrieved from one binding, from four Latin manuscripts, 14th-to 15th-century, and (fol. 25) from one 15th-cent. document in French
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 5
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‘Part[s] of lot 22 in Phillipps sale [Sotheby's] 22 June 1965’
Phillipps MS. 30449, four damaged bifolia containing part of I Maccabees with apparatus taken from the commentary of Rabanus Maurus (Stegműller no. 7058) and two smaller fragments from the same glossed manuscript, one from II Chronicles, early 13th-cent., with modern notes
parts of four leaves, 2nd. half of the 12th cent.
one leaf, with a large penwork initial, written in France in the 13th century
damaged bifolium, first half of the 13th century
[the sale-catalogue specifies only the II Maccabees and Epistles fragments, but also mentions ‘about 30 other fragments large and small from manuscripts of the 12th to the 15th century’, many of which are probably to be found in MS. Lat. misc. b. 26]
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Penwork initial, fol. 48
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Thomas Phillipps , MS. 30449 (in part)
MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 6
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‘Scraps./from Maltby [the Oxford bookbinding firm] / All he had but one or/two which I gave to/Bodley […] fr. of Arator’ [the Arator is MS. Lat. misc. b. 12, fols. 97–9, given 1950] :
Binding strips of negligible width from two Latin manuscripts of the 14th and 15th centuries
Binding scraps from two Latin and (fol. 54) one French documentary sources of the 16th or 17th century
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 25 – Part 7
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Binding fragments ‘From Mr. Molloy’:
Smallish scraps from six Latin manuscripts, 13th- to 15th-cent., including (fols. 59–60) a verse text, 2nd half of the 13th century, and (fol. 61) an index or concordance, 13th cent.
Two adjoining fragments of a document in French, later 16th cent.(?)
Thin strip from an account in English, 17th cent.
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.