Pseudo-Isidore — 13th century, early; French
MS. Hatton 6
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Pseudo-Isidore — 13th century, early; French
Shelfmark
MS. Hatton 6
Place of origin
French
Date
13th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
276 leaves
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
Binding
White leather on boards, with outer cover of white sheepskin, edges stained red; there are two leather thongs, pins wanting; at bottom of front cover are remains of a chain fastening for attachment to a lectern, on back outer cover a 15th-cent. parchment label of contents; English 15th-cent. (?) work.
Acquisition
Bought with his library by the Bodleian through the London bookseller Robert Scot in 1671.
Provenance
Worcester Cathedral Priory: accepted by MLGB as a medieval Worcester book.
No. 324 in the Worcester catalogue of 1622–23 (Catalogus Librorum..., ed. Atkins and Ker, p. 57)
Acquired from Worcester by Christopher, baron Hatton (d. 1670).
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