MS. Barlow 6
Summary Catalogue no.: 6418
Contents
Physical Description
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
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
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Online resources:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.