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

MS. Barlow 26

Summary Catalogue no.: 6460

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 187, pl. XIX:

Good historiated initial in archaizing style.

Other fine initials.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 12th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1937). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Last Substantive Revision

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