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MS. Barlow 6

Summary Catalogue no.: 6418

Contents

John of Salisbury, Polycraticus

Contemporary marginalia.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 209 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 240 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 39–40 lines, column space 243–50 × 65 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 368, pl. XXXII ('fine historiated and other initials, added in the second quarter of the 13th century'):

Historiated initials.

Other initials.

Coloured initials, rubrics.

Binding

Stamped brown leather, late 17th-cent. English work, rebacked.

History

Origin: 1187 × 1205; decoration added, 13th century, second quarter ; English, Malmesbury, Benedictine Abbey

Provenance and Acquisition

Written at Malmesbury Abbey by Salomon under Abbot Robert of Meldon (1187–1205); inscription, fol. 209: ‘Explicit Policraticus per Salomonem sub Abbate Roberto .iiº’.

Fol. 142r-v: ‘ Thomas Lonwell ’ or ‘Lonewell’. 16th century (?).

Fol. 209 : ‘ Richardus Ramsaeus possidet’, mid-16th century.

Fol. 209v: ‘ Wyllyam Fyttz ’, mid-16th century.

Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691: acquired 1633, inscription fol. 1.

Bequeathed by him in 1691.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2018) from the following sources:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 65 [physical description, origin, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , III (1973), no. 368 [decoration]
Summary Catalogue (1937) [contents, provenance]
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1045
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1046

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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