Ludolf of Saxony, etc.; England, 1444/5
MSS. Bodl. 741-2
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ludolf of Saxony, etc.; England, 1444/5
Shelfmark
MSS. Bodl. 741-2
Place of origin
English
Date
1445 (new style; 1444 old style)
Language
Latin
Contents
Hands
Two hands: (1) vol. 1, and vol. 2, fols. 1–301, 338–40, Johannes Chestur (colophon); (2) vol. 2, fols. 302–37.
Decoration
Good penwork borders, initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 907)
Coloured borders and initials.
Binding
19th century.
Preserves two pairs of medieval clasps.
Acquisition
Presented by the dean and canons of Windsor in 1612.
Provenance
Colophon, MS. Bodl. 742, fol. 301, see below.
William Byconyll, -1448: ex libris on fol. 2 of both volumes (see below).
John Birkhede, -1468: ex libris on fol. 2 of both volumes (see below).
Oxford, All Souls College (?): ex libris on fol. 2 of both volumes (see below), but MLGB3 and Pächt and Alexander suggest that the reversionary gift mentioned did not take effect.
Windsor, collegiate chapel of St George; pressmark FP
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