A collection of miscellaneous manuscripts, ranging in date from the
13th to 20th century, acquired by the Radcliffe Library, Oxford (i.e. the
independent library which originally occupied the Radcliffe Camera, under the
governance of the Radcliffe Trustees). Most of the manuscripts became the
property of the Bodleian by decree of Chancery in 1932; others were given by
the Radcliffe Trustees between 1935 and 1938.
References to all six medieval manuscripts were included (as an
anomaly, but for the sake of completeness) in M. Clapinson & T. D. Rogers,
Summary catalogue of post-medieval Western manuscripts in
the Bodleian Library Oxford: acquisitions 1916-1975 (SC 37300-55936), 3
vols., Oxford 1991, nos. 51839-44 (cited below as New
Summary Catalogue).
| Shelfmark |
MS. Radcliffe Trust d. 2 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
New Summary Catalogue
51841; more detailed description unpublished, only available in
Library
|
| Summary of contents |
Pompeius Festus, De significatione
verborum.
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| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Italian |
| Date |
15th century, middle |
| Material |
paper |
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| Decoration |
| Good initial, border. Humanistic script. (P&A ii. 946) |
| Three- to four-line initials with penwork. |
| fol. 1r |
| Type |
initial L
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| Subject |
Five-line initial on gold background; floral
decorations extending into the left margin.
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Provenance |
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Sir Thomas Phillipps
(1792-1872), MS. 8287; Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917), keeper of the
University Museum; transferred from the Radcliffe Science Library, 1928
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Radcliffe Trust d. 60 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
New Summary Catalogue
51839
|
| Summary of contents |
Avicenna, Canon (books 1, 2, 4,
5), tr. Gerard of Cremona.
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| Language |
Latin |
| Origin |
Italian |
| Date |
13th century, second half |
| Material |
parchment |
|
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| Decoration |
| Illuminated and penwork initials. |
|
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Provenance |
Rodel ? (bookplate); transferred in 1982
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Radcliffe Trust e. 4 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
New Summary Catalogue
51843
|
| Summary of contents |
Collection of medical recipes. |
| Language |
English, Norman French, Latin |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
15th century, second half |
| Material |
parchment |
|
|
| Bibliography |
| 1997 |
|
| The Index of Middle English Prose,
Handlist XII, Smaller Bodleian collections:
English miscellaneous, English poetry, English theology, Finch, Latin theology,
Lyell, Radcliffe Trust, ed. Ralph Hanna III, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1997, pp. xxviii, 26
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
|
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Radcliffe Trust e. 30 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
New Summary Catalogue
51844; more detailed description unpublished, only available in
Library
|
| Composite |
two parts |
| Summary of contents |
Treatise on diet and astrology ('Gouernayle of helth'). ||
Treatise on astrology ('The wisest boke of philosophie and
astronomye').
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| Language |
English |
| Origin |
English |
| Date |
15th century, second half || 16th century, first
half
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| Material |
parchment |
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Provenance |
'J. O. Halliwell no. 14' and 'Bibl. Hall. 48' with stamp,
Halliwell cat. of 1840, nos. 38, 39; Sotheby's 27 June 1840, lot 116;
transferred from Radcliffe Science Library, 1935
|
|
|
| Bibliography |
| 1997 |
|
| The Index of Middle English Prose,
Handlist XII, Smaller Bodleian collections:
English miscellaneous, English poetry, English theology, Finch, Latin theology,
Lyell, Radcliffe Trust, ed. Ralph Hanna III, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,
1997, pp. xi, xxviii, 26-7
Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
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