Peter Comestor — 13th century, beginning; English
MS. Lat. th. c. 23
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Peter Comestor — 13th century, beginning; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. th. c. 23
Place of origin
English
Date
13th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
74 leaves
Decoration
Good and other initials. Illuminated initials in blue, red, green and buff on fol.6 and 12v
The rest flourished blue, green and red, the rubrication ending at fol.55
Binding
contemporary boards, clasp missing.
Provenance
'Liber sancte Marie Hurl.' (Hurley, cell of Westminster Abbey), 13th century
‘Quisquis in hunc librum sua lumina verteret unquam / Nomen subscriptum perlegat ipse meum. Per me Morganum Awbrey Oxoniae studiosum’ and ‘Noverint universi per praesentes nos Iohannem Jevons clericum parochiae de West Hendred et Thomam clericum teneri firmiter obligari Waltero herberte’, late 16th or early 17th cent. hands. Walter Herberte was rector of East Hendred 1571 – 1605).
Bought at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1957, lot 60
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