MS. Lat. misc. b. 26
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from sources not now identifiable (but most show traces of having been recovered from bindings, and many are probably from the c. 30 unspecified Phillipps fragments sold at Sotheby's, 22 June 1965, lot 22, [see MS. Lat. misc. b. 25 item 5 above), sorted after arrival in Bodley into rough subject categories. 114 leaves (really 121, for fol. 63 is double, fol. 13 triple, fol. 47 quintuple; fols. 62, 82 and 85 arrived each in two parts).
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Provenance and Acquisition
Handed on by Prof. A. G. Watson, Dr. Ker's literary executor, in accordance with Dr. Ker's wishes, 1984
MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 1
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Latin liturgical fragments, ranging in size from small scraps to bifolia, from twenty-six manuscripts of the 12th to 15th centuries, including:
noted with adiastematic neums, 12th-cent., Germanic
Fragments of four missals, early 14th to early 15th centuries, English
fragments of four Breviaries, two late 13th-cent. French and two 14th-cent. English
14th-cent., English
Fragments of four Books of Hours, early to late 15th-century, one English, two French (one with panel-borders, ivy-leaf style) and one Flemish
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 2
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 3
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Latin biblical commentaries, small fragments from five 12th-cent. manuscripts:
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 4
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Latin theological works, fragments ranging in size from a small strip to a damaged bifolium, from six manuscripts of the 12th to 15th centuries
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 5
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Latin scholastic theology, a bifolium from a 13th-cent. manuscript, with (attached to it during its later re-use in a binding) part of a private letter in French, 13th cent.(?);
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 6
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Canon law, fragments (small strips bifolia) from five manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries, including:
two fragments from the same leaf (not quite adjoining) of a table of capitula, written in Italy in the later 13th cent.
a mutilated bifolium from an early 14th-cent. Italian manuscript, with a badly damaged miniature of an armed man standing before a seated bishop at the start of De regulis iuris (reused in the 16th cent. as the cover of an English Liber Comp' sacriste)
most of one leaf (I. 3, 12), 14th cent., Italian
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Miniature, fols. 65–6, damaged
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 7
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two 13th-cent. manuscripts : (fol. 68) one nearly complete leaf, a former pastedown which carries (fol. 69) the bookplate of Archibald Campbell dated 1708; and (fol. 70) a small scrap of a glossed text
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 8
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Latin grammar, single leaves from two late 12th-century manuscripts :
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 9
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two 14th-cent. English manuscripts : one scrap, and one complete leaf from a Bk. II
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 10
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 11
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Undefinable scraps from three manuscripts, including (fol. 81) a cutting from an illuminated border (Italian, 15th cent.?), showing two human heads
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Border, fol. 81
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 12
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Nine complete documents (two with seals) and five incomplete items, late 13th to 17th centuries, including documents relating to (fol. 82) Sawbridge and Wolfhamcote, Warwickshire, 1286, (fol. 91) Doncaster, 15th cent., (fol. 84) St. Dunstan Without, nr. Canterbury, Kent, 1535, (fol. 96) Clawton, Devon, 1567
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MSS. Lat. misc. b. 26 – Part 13
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.