MS. Barlow 6
Summary Catalogue no.: 6418
Contents
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
Fine historiated and other initials, added in the second quarter of the 13th century. (P&A iii. 368, pl. XXXII)
Illuminated initials (some historiated), coloured initials, rubrics.
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]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)