MS. Lyell 37

Astrological and astronomical texts and tables

Language(s): English and Latin

William Reed , Tabulae Oxonienses cum canonibus (English translation)

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Decoration

Crude initials in English translation of William Reed's canons (pp. 25-55) in colours (blue, orange, green, mauve) on yellow grounds, on p. 25 infilled with a flower, on p. 26 accompanied by a bar border and foliage, and on p. 43 by an unfinished border of foliage and flowers sketched in ink; in other items initials either plain red, or omitted. (P&A iii. 1127)

History

Origin: 15th century, late (after 1476) ; English, East Anglia (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

James P. R. Lyell, 1871-1948

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)

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