Anselm of Canterbury; Honorius Augustodunensis, etc.
MS. Lyell 58
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Anselm of Canterbury; Honorius Augustodunensis, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Lyell 58
Place of origin
Austrian or German
Date
12th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i+116 leaves (fol. 6, 10, 27, 28, 86 are double, fol. i, 111 are flyleaves),
Hands
Written in Austria or Germany in the 12th cent.
Decoration
Main initials and headings in red.
Some smaller initials in brown decorated with red dots.
Up to fol. 68r the scribe's marginal captions describing the contents of the text have decorative red frames.
Binding
19th-cent. calf binding with flowers and device of crossed keys stamped in gold on the spine.
Acquisition
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Provenance
Formerly belonged to the Abbey of Melk, Austria, and is probably the MS. described as B. 102 in the 1483 Melk catalogue; see Gottlieb, Mittelalt. Bibl. kat. Österreichs 1, 1915, p. 176 1. 33–6. It is inscribed: Monasterii Melicensis and lit. D. 25 on fol. 1, as well as having later library stamps, and on the binding the shelfmark: 850 (P. 40).
Bought by Lyell from E. P. Goldschmidt and Co. in March 1943.
James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948
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