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MS. Selden Supra 25

Summary Catalogue no.: 3413

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–44 || fols. 45–75, 76–93 || fols. 94–129 || fols. 130–174 || fols. 175–211 || fols. 212–244

Binding

Stamped brown leather on boards, re-backed, with clasps, middle 15th cent. work, perhaps of Canterbury.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Distinctione 13 a Gradu 3 a [sic]' (top of fol. 1r), s. xv. (Medieval binding.) (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

W. Patten. (MLGB3)

John Selden, 1584–1654

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1659

MS. Selden Supra 25 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials.

Good diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 202)

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English

MS. Selden Supra 25 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Boethius, De institutione musica
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good diagrams.

Initials added, 14th century. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 121)

History

Origin: 12th century, first half; added decoration, 14th century, early ; English

MS. Selden Supra 25 – Part 3

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century ; English

MS. Selden Supra 25 – Part 4

Contents

1.
Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii

Bks i-ii and viii (incomplete)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine and good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 203, pl. XX)

History

Origin: 12th century, end ; English

MS. Selden Supra 25 – Part 5

Contents

1.
Cicero, Somnium Scipionis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century ; English

MS. Selden Supra 25 – Part 6

Contents

1.
Robert Grosseteste, Compotus correctorius
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, late ; English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 623
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 624

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (6 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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