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| Shelfmark | MS. Lat. bib. e. 7 |
| Summary Catalogue no. | Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library |
| Summary of contents | Bible and Select Masses ('The de Brailes Bible'). |
| Language | Latin |
| Origin | English, Oxford |
| Date | 13th century, second quarter |
| Material | parchment |
| Decoration | |
| Historiated and decorated initials. | |
| Provenance | Made in Oxford, for a Dominican(?); Prior Johannes Linden, presented to Nicholas Boheler of Spira (Speyer or Spiere?), 15th cent.; Isabella Fernandes, presented to the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, Antwerp, 1647; Alfred Pfeiffer, with his bookplate; Olschki, 1915, sold to C. W. Dyson Perrins, his sale 1/21/59, lot 59; bought at Sotheby's 5 July 1976, lot 81. |
| Manuscript image | fol. 406r Initial A, at beginning of index. Dragons. |
| 1995 | |
| Suzanne Lewis, Reading images: narrative discourse and reception in the thirteenth-century illuminated Apocalypse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, p. 349 n. 36 | |
| 1994 | |
| Christopher de Hamel, A
history of illuminated manuscripts,
2nd edn., London 1994, p. 140 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R |
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| 1992 | |
| The History of the University of Oxford, vol. II, Late Medieval Oxford, eds. J. I. Catto & Ralph Evans, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, p. xxxii [list of unprinted sources] | |
| Malcolm B. Parkes, 'Buchversorgung und Buchgebrauch in den Ordenshäusern der Oxforder Universität', in Der Codex im Gebrauch, eds. Christel Meier, Dagmar Hüpper & Hagen Keller (Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums 11. - 13. Juni 1992) (Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 70), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1992, pp. 109-126, at p. 115 | |
| 1984 | |
| Pierre Riché & Guy Lobrichon, eds., Le Moyen Age et la Bible (Bible de tous les temps, 4), Paris: Editions Beauchesne, 1984, p. 92 | |