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

MS. Barlow 21

Summary Catalogue no.: 6459

Contents

1.
Hexameron

Poem on Creation, based on Genesis.

Language(s): Latin
2.
Ps.-Augustine, De spiritu et anima

Excerpt 'De imagine dei'

Incipit: Tanta dignitas humane condicionis ...
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Illuminated initals and borders.

Binding

Blind-tooled brown leather, 17th-cent. English work.

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1937).

Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.