Fragment from a collection of exempla, miracula, etc. England, 15th century
MS. Lat. misc. e. 125
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Fragment from a collection of exempla, miracula, etc. England, 15th century
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. misc. e. 125
Place of origin
English
Date
15th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
10 leaves
Hands
Anglicana
Decoration
2-line coloured red initial, fol. 10r; otherwise no decoration or rubrication.
Acquisition
Later given to the Bodleian by the Rev. J. C. Dickinson, 1974 (cf. MS. Lat. misc. e. 126 – a transcript).
Provenance
Prof. A. Hamilton Thompson. A transcript by Hamilton Thompson is now MS. Lat. misc. e. 126: this includes a transcript of an eleventh folio, presently untraced, which contained the end of a further exemplum; an exemplum beginning 'Quidam frater inpugnabatur a fornicacione qui veniens in vicum quondam egipti', and ending 'et esto solicitus'; and another exemplum beginning 'Aliquando ostendit deus quare malis jus permittitur' and ending 'consolacionem scripturarum spem habeamus'.
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