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MS. Selden Superius 111

Summary Catalogue no.: 3323

Contents

Exposition of Ten Commandments, Creed, Sacraments, Liturgy, etc., with prefaces

A list of contents is on p. 234

Language(s): Russian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
viii + 242 pages
Dimensions (binding): 6.375 × 4.625 in.

Condition

stained

Hand(s)

Apparently written by Christopher Borough (A. E. Pennington, 'A Sixteenth-Century English Slavist', Modern Language Review, 62, No. 4 (Oct., 1967), pp. 680-686)

Binding

Limp white parchment with gold ornament and the royal arms of England on the sides. English work of c. 1590

History

Origin: 16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

'Forte repertum Londinj hunc libellum emit M. Westermannus: Equidem ab eo redemj, si fortassis indagare queam characterum explicationes . 14 . Nouemb. 1590

'John Sjmson his boke', early 17th century.

John Selden, 1584–1654

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1659

Record Sources

Description adapted (September 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, Part 1, p. 604

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Ralph Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 193

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-06: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)

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