Honorius Augustodunensis — 13th century, early; Italian
MS. Lyell 69
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Honorius Augustodunensis — 13th century, early; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 69
Place of origin
Italian
Date
13th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iv + 174 leaves (i-iv, 173-4 are flyleaves)
Hands
Firm rounded minuscule, writing above top line
Decoration
Decorated initials.
Pen drawings: fol. 1r, King Solomon; fol. 13v, Christ preaching (?); fol. 121v, head of Christ, and a monster; fol. 144r, a bishop, in the border are a monster and a bird. On fols. 56v-57r similar drawings have been coloured, chiefly in deep blue, with pale blue, orange, green, and violet: fol. 56v, miniature of King Solomon on his throne.
fol. 57r, initial with a bishop.
Border of curling foliage.
Smaller initials in red.
Binding
Modern darkbrown morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
At the top of fol. 172 is an erased 13th cent. ex-libris: 'Ista cantica est monasterii S[?. . .] F[? . . . . .] de Parm [? . . .]' and above this a later (14th-cent.?) hand has written 'S. Sita' (?).
A later erased note on fol. 1 (17th-18th cent.) apparently described the contents of the MS.
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948: bought n February 1942 from E. P. Goldschmidt and Co.: see his Cat. 44, no. II.
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