Augustine — 12th century, second quarter; English
MS. Bodl. 269
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Augustine — 12th century, second quarter; English
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 269
Place of origin
English
Date
12th century, second quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii + 233 leaves
Decoration
Important miniature (coloured drawing), fol. iii recto: the Virgin and Child, the former seated and crowned, with sceptre.
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 102, pl. X)
Binding
White leather on boards, much worn, clasp lost, English xvth cent. work.
Acquisition
Presented by the dean and chapter of Windsor in 1612: with library mark.
Provenance
Eynsham Abbey: pressmark .B. IIII, 14th cent., in red on fol. 1r, cf. MS. Laud Lat. 31; marginalia perhaps in the same hand (s. xiv) as in MS. Laud Lat. 31 (MLGB).
'Caucio Roberti [...] exposita in Cista de [...] et habet vnum Supplementum [...]" on verso of last leaf. (MLGB)
Windsor, collegiate chapel. '"SV" on fol. i recto, formerly pastedown. Medieval binding generally like MS. Bodl. 192. Usual chainmark.' (MLGB3)
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