Gregory IX, Alexander IV, Nicholas III, Johannes de Deo — 14th century, beginning; French

Title

Gregory IX, Alexander IV, Nicholas III, Johannes de Deo — 14th century, beginning; French

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. d. 32

Place of origin

French

Date

14th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 500 pages (gloss 140, length varying)

Decoration

Good historiated initials (fol. 2, 126, 230, 340v, 378).

The rest flourished red and blue

Binding

blind stamped black leather over oak boards tooled with scrolls lettered ‘Mathias.’ Brass bosses, corner pieces and clasps with straps. Rebacked. For a list of books bound by Mathias see E. Kyriss, Verzierte Gotische Einbände, Stuttgart, 1951, pp. 44–5.

Acquisition

Bought, 1960.

Provenance

Ex libris of the Cathedral of Olmütz, Moravia, 17th century: ‘Ex Biblioth. Cathed. Eccl[esi]ce Olem’ (fol. 1). Another Olmütz book is Auct. Q. supra II.21.

Joseph Barrois, 1784–1855

Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 1797–1878, acquired with the Barrois manuscripts in 1849.

Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham, 1840–1913

Barrois-Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's 10 June 1901 and four following days, lot 247, bought by Tregaskis for £7 15s.

George Dunn (1864–1912), his sale, First Portion, at Sotheby's 11 Feb. 1913 and three following days, lot 497, bought by Leighton for £20

E. P. Goldschmidt, by 1928 (described in his Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, London 1928, I. 155.)