Peter Comestor — s.xiiiex; English
MS. Bodl. 208
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Peter Comestor — s.xiiiex; English
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 208
Place of origin
English
Date
s.xiiiex
s.xiii
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
pastedown + v + 156 + iii + pastedown
Hands
Fols. 1r-146v written in a protogothic hand
Fols. 147r-156v written in a hand with more Gothic features
Decoration
??? in red and blue, 2–20lines high. 5 on each side of the folio on average.
Binding
s. xv
340 235 60
Endleaves: At the front, a fragment pastedown in situ, possibly at one time wrapped around the following endleaves, but now a little distorted; followed by 8 non-fragment leaves bound as a quire, where leaves 4, 5, and 8 are stubs, with some text in ?plummet. At the back, the final leaf of the last quire is blank; followed by a non-fragment bifolium with a wide stub, and a non-fragment pastedown in situ, these have plummet some plummet and ink text and pen trials.
Sewing: Sewn at five sewing stations (measured in mm): 55, 110, 160, 215, 265 from the top of the spine.
Boards: Wooden boards around 7mm thick, including cover. The sewing supports enter the boards from the outside. Boards have some bevelling and do not project beyond the bookblock.
Endbands: Braided light brown leather endbands.
Cover: Whittawed leather cover. Turn ins mostly pared at either board, with tongued mitres in the visible corners.
Fastenings and furniture: Two pairs of holes, and damage to cover at foredge of upper board, with corresponding pairs of three nails and verdigris at foredge of lower board are the remains of two clasps.
Chaining: Chain-staple holes from Bodleian (top RH corner of upper board) and St George's Chapel, Windsor (bottom centre of upper board).
Acquisition
Presented by the dean and canons of Windsor in 1612.
Provenance
Witham, charterhouse (?): '"Witham" (s. xv), written small near the top of fol. ii recto. Whether it indicates that the MS comes from W. Charterhouse is doubtful.' (MLGB)
Windsor, collegiate chapel: 'Liber Collegij de Wyndesore', 16th cent.
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