Hugh of St. Cher, Jean de la Rochelle, Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Cher — 1455–1456; English
MS. Lat. th. b. 5
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Hugh of St. Cher, Jean de la Rochelle, Ps.-Hugh of Saint-Cher — 1455–1456; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. th. b. 5
Place of origin
English
Date
1455–1456
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment noticeably white (p. 750 called by the scribe ‘malum velin per totum’, p. 395 ‘carta pessima et abiecta’)
Physical extent
830 pages
Decoration
Fine borders.
Illuminated initials at beginning of each work, blue, rose, green and orange acanthus leaves, picked out with white, on a gold ground, with ivy leaf floriation on inner and upper margin, English work (that on p.601 is reproduced in Bodleian Library, Annual Report of the Curators, 1951–2, 1951–2, facing p.9).
At beginnings of chapters blue initials flourished with red, lemmata underlined in red
Binding
Contemporary sheep-skin binding, originally pink, with one clasp remaining.
Acquisition
Quaritch, cat. 699 (1952), item 56; purchased by the Bodleian
Provenance
Written by Matheus de Moravia of the diocese of Olomouc (Olmütz), p. 827: see the references given in B.L.R. IV, (1953) 341
Inscription, p. 829, concerning the price of parchment, writing, decoration, etc.: ‘Hic liber continet in se in toto li quaternos et quilibet quaternus continet in se viij folia precium uniuscuiusque quaterni pro scriptura xld. et pro velin uniuscuiusque quaterni viijd.et pro ligatura et illuminatura xxiijs.viijd. Summa totalis huius xj li.vjs. viijd.’
J. P. R. Lyell
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