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

MS. Barlow 32

Summary Catalogue no.: 6479

Contents

Manual, Benedictine
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Some fine, other good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 616)

Binding

Contemporary, red leather upon bevelled boards, two brass and leather clasps, one broken.

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Liber sepulture Randulphi de Londoniis D. xiiii G. iiii Et est liber Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis." (s. xiv). "LIBER RAND' DE LONDONII S " (three dots in between words). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

"Liber Thomae Barlow è Coll. Reg. Oxon' anno MDCXXX". (MLGB3)

Medieval binding. M. R. James, p. 533. (MLGB3)

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).

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 42

Last Substantive Revision

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