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MS. Lyell 37

Contents

1.
Astrological and astronomical texts and tables
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
2.
William Reed, Tabulae Oxonienses cum canonibus (English translation)
Language(s): Middle 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. (Pächt and Alexander 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 abbreviated from A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)
Catalogue, p. 101
Catalogue, p. 102
Catalogue, p. 103
Catalogue, p. 104
Catalogue, p. 105

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-06-15: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.