Petrus Riga — 13th century; English
MS. Lat. th. d. 38
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Petrus Riga — 13th century; English
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. th. d. 38
Place of origin
English
Date
13th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii (paper) + 155 + ii (paper)
Hands
Good gothic
Binding
Sewn on four bands and bound in uncoloured parchment over pasteboards, the covers each tooled in gilt with an outer framing filet, and an inner rectangle with a thistle-head motif at each corner; the spine lettered in gilt 'BIBLIA | SACRA | CARMIN'; a rust-stain an hole near the centre of the final original leaf is perhaps suggestive of the the position of a pin of a former strap and pin fastening
Provenance
Erased inscriptons on fol. 155v
James Sotheby (d. 1720), signed and dated 1684 (fol. 1r)
C. W. H. Sotheby (with his bookplate, inscribed 'Biblia Sacra (in verse)')
H. G. Sotheby, of Ecton Hall
First deposited by, and then given to, the Bodleian by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. d. 238.
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