Plato — s. xv2; script with French appearance, written by an English scribe
Merton College E. 3. 21
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Plato — s. xv2; script with French appearance, written by an English scribe
Shelfmark
Merton College E. 3. 21
Place of origin
script with French appearance, written by an English scribe
Date
s. xv2
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
The lower part of a leaf. The leaf 160 mm. wide, written space 100 mm.
Hands
Written by an English scribe practising French bastard secretary script.
Decoration
Names of the interlocutors in pinkish red.
Provenance
Taken from 66. d. 5 (P. Bellonius, &c., Antwerp 1589, &c., ‘ex dono Bernhault Robins’, s. xvii). Another bifolium is in the Oxford binding of Magdalen Coll., MS lat. 182, descr. by W. D. Macray in Bibliographica 1 (1895), 328; two leaves are in Bodl. Libr., Savile R. 6 (Aristotle, Frankfurt 1587); six strips are in the bindings of four vols of Maldon, Plume Library, A. 2. 30–2 (Magdeburg Centuriators, Basel 1564–74).
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