Albertanus Brixiensis, De amore et dilectione Dei; Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi; England, s. xv1

Title

Albertanus Brixiensis, De amore et dilectione Dei; Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi; England, s. xv1

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 50

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xv1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment HFFH

Physical extent

148 leaves, preceded by two 18th-century paper flyleaves and followed by one other.

Hands

Anglicana formata but with secretary a and g. Punctuated by low point.

Decoration

Two-line red initial, rubrics, and red stroking of capitals throughout. 1 has red and sometimes black running book numbers.

Binding

Sewn on four bands between 18th-century millboards covered with marbled paper and half-leather. On the spine is a red leather label with a gold title.

Provenance

In addition to an erased ex libris and the name John Mey in a pen-trial, for which see 2 above, there are some 15th-century marginalia, but the early history of the book is unknown.

It is not recorded at Exeter c. 1600 in Ecloga (but see Watson, Exeter, Introduction, pp. xxii–xxiii). Not in CMA.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 2, ‘BB4–9 Gall’, deleted and replaced by ‘Q1–25-Gall’, also deleted, ‘171–B–5’ and ‘Coxe L’ (pencil). On fol. ir is a note in Coxe’s(?) hand, ‘See at end of B. V. Bk. 5 Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis De amore Domini etc.’ On the spine is a round paper label with ‘5’ on it and at the foot a square paper label with ‘65’.