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

MS. Barlow 48

Summary Catalogue no.: 6428

Contents

John of Salisbury, Policraticus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials, partly mutilated. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 288)

Binding

White parchment on bevelled boards, 15th-cent. English work.

History

Origin: c. 1200 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: "Liber ecclesie sancte Marie de Cyrencestria" (c. 1300). (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

(lower pastedown) "Robert ap Powell ap Rychard Llewellyn or Ploythe Lantowny in comitatu Herford'" (s. xvii). (MLGB3)

Apparently copied from S.C. 6418 (see Malmesbury). Title and note on fol. 1r probably in hand of Sir John Prise. (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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

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