MS. Lat. misc. c. 91
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Guardbook of fragments from the binding of Antiq. c.I.1514/1
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Antiq. c.I.1514/1 (Erasmus, Adagia, Ferrara, 1514; USTC 828229) bought from Nijhoff; rebound by Fifield of the Bodleian Library, 3 Dec. 1951; fragments handlisted and shelfmarked on 2 Dec. 1977.
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fol. 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Recto: Annunciation, with text from Luke and part of Cantus 007505; verso, Cantus 006024 and an unidentified chant.
Physical Description
Layout
2 columns; column width c. 70-5 mm.
Hand(s)
Protogothic
Notation on staves of four lines.
Decoration
Initials in red.
History
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fol. 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The recto is largely illegible; the verso 'Idem [Innocent IV] de appellis' (VI.2.15.1), 'Gregorius IXus de decimis' (VI.3.13.1, CIC II.1047 note a), 'Innocentus IIIIus de sententia excommunicationis' (VI.5.11.1)
Physical Description
Layout
2 columns; column width c. 48-52 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis
Decoration
Alternating red and blue initials flourished in the contrasting colour.
History
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fol. 3
Contents
Language(s): Latin
'Tres gradus fidelium', for which see P. Moore, The Works of Peter of Poitiers (1936), 169
Text does not exactly correspond with any of the versions printed by Moore, Works of Peter of Poitiers, app. III.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Gothic textualis
Decoration
Fragment of the drawing of the seven-branched candlestick which usually accompanies 'Tres gradus calami'.
Three- and two-line initials alternating red and blue.
History
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fols. 4-15
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Beginning with D (the first entries are Dalbreanum, Dalmatica, Danubius ('est fluuius in se sexaginta fluuios recipiens...'), ending with the beginning of F (last entries are Facula ('dicitur lignum ardens ad modum candele'), Falx, Facultas); fols. 14-15 with passages of R (entries include Regulus, Rivulus).
Physical Description
Layout
Two columns of c. 47 lines; frame-ruled in ink, ruled space c. 220 × 165-70 mm. , c. 12 mm. between columns
Hand(s)
Cursive bookhand.
Decoration
Initials in red
Ascenders at the top of the page extended and decorated, including drawings of heads.
History
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fols. 16-18
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Cf. texts pr. A. Domanovszky, 'Chronici Hungarici compositio saeculi XIV', in Scriptores Rerum Hungaricarum I (1937), 240-245.5 'a monte'.
ibid. 283.16-290.10
Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in ink for one column of 40 lines; ruled space 205-10 × 145 mm.
Hand(s)
Cursive bookhand
Decoration
8-line red initial, fol. 16r; elsewhere 3- to 4-line red initials.
History
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fol. 19
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
History
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fol. 20
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Damaged and illegible parchment fragment
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fols. 21-22 (rejoined 1998)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Parchment (former endleaf or wrapper?) blank except for partly illegible ex libris on the verso: ‘Liber … dei de | …’
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fols. 23a-23f
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Hybrida
Decoration
None
History
MS. Lat. misc. c. 91, fols. 24a-24i
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Cursive
Decoration
None
History
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-10: Description revised.