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Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 2
Summary Catalogue no. 3390 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 1)
Summary of contents Gospels Lectionary (palimpsest, upper script). || Gospels Lectionary and other miscellaneous materials (lower script).
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 13th century, end || 8th (?) to 13th centuries
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 583

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 3
Summary Catalogue no. 3391 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 2)
Summary of contents Gospels (palimpsest, upper script). || Gospels (lower script).
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 14th century, end
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 583

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 4
Summary Catalogue no. 3392 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 3)
Summary of contents Liturgical book: Pentecostarium (fragment). John Chrysostom, Easter sermon. Josephus and Theophanes, Triodia.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 12th century, end
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Cols. 583-584

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 5
Summary Catalogue no. 3393 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 4)
Summary of contents Horologium. Various liturgical texts.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 12th century and 13th century
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 584
Quarto image Col. 585

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 6
Summary Catalogue no. 3394 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 5)
Summary of contents Four Gospels.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine, Constantinople
Date c. 1330
Material parchment

Decoration
Miniatures of evangelists. Ornamental headpieces with symbols of Evangelists. (Hutter, I. 67)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Cols. 585-586
Bibliography
1995
Marcell Restle, 'Zwei palaiologische Evangelistenbilder', in Byzantine East, Latin West: Art-Historical Studies in honor of Kurt Weitzmann, eds. Christopher Moss & Katherine Kiefer, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology, 1995, pp. 387-404, with 2 figs., at p. 400
1994
Giancarlo Prato, 'Scritture librarie arcaizzanti della prima età dei Paleologi e loro modelli' [first published 1979], reprinted in his collected articles, Studi di paleografia greca, Spoleto 1994, pp. 73-114, Tavv. 1-24, at p. 102

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 7
Summary Catalogue no. 3395 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 6)
Summary of contents Isaac Argyrus, works. Ptolemy, Quadripartitum. Astronomical treatises.
Language Greek
Date 15th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 586
Quarto image Col. 587
Bibliography
1994
Anne Tihon, 'Les tables astronomiques persanes à Constantinople dans la première moitié du XIVe siècle' [first published 1987], reprinted in her collected articles, Etudes d'astronomie byzantine (Collected Studies Series, CS454), Aldershot, etc.: Variorum, 1994, Article V, p. 486

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 8
Summary Catalogue no. 3396 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 7)
Summary of contents Menologion for August.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 14th century, end
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 587

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 9
Summary Catalogue no. 3397 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 8)
Composite two parts
Summary of contents Sermons. Amphilochius, Vita S. Basilii, fragment (palimpsest, upper script). Liturgical manuscript(s); Old Testament lectionary; New Testament lectionary (lower scripts). || Sermons. Saints' lives. Etc.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 14th century, beginning. (Palimpsest, lower scripts) 9th or 10th century to 12th century
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 588
Quarto image Col. 589
Bibliography
2000
Giuseppe De Gregorio, 'Materiali vecchi e nuovi per uno studio della minuscola greca fra VII e IX secolo', in I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito: Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca (Cremona, 4-10 ottobre 1998), ed. Giancarlo Prato, 2 vols. + plates (Papyrologica Florentina, 31), Florence: Edizioni Gonnelli, 2000, pp. 83-151, at p. 108 [fols. 44-113, script. inf.]
1937
Albert Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche, 3 vols. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 50-52), Leipzig-Berlin 1937-1952 (reprinted Leipzig 1965), II 611; III 760-761 [Information taken from Lidia Perria, I manoscritti citati da Albert Ehrhard (Testi e Studi Bizantino-Neoellenici, 4), Rome 1979, pp. 103-6]

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Summary Catalogue no. 3398 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 9)
Summary of contents Menologion (December to February).
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 12th century, beginning (?)
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Cols. 589-590

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 11
Summary Catalogue no. 3399 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 10)
Summary of contents 'Epitome legum': extracts from legal codes.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 11th century
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 590

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 12
Summary Catalogue no. 3400 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 11)
Summary of contents Philo Judaeus, works. Anonymous commentary on Philo's exposition of the Tenth Commandment.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 10th century
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 590
Quarto image Col. 591

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Summary Catalogue no. 3403 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 14)
Summary of contents Bestiary. Scientific texts. Theodorus Prodromus, oration. Johannes Damascenus, sermon.
Language Greek
Date 16th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 592
Bibliography
1999
Paul Jonathan Fedwick, Bibliotheca Basiliana Universalis: a study of the manuscript tradition, translations and editions of the works of Basil of Caesarea. IV, Testimonia, liturgical and canonical compositions, florilegia, catenae, iconography: IV, 2, Manuscripts -- Libraries (Corpus Christianorum), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1999, p. 923 (siglum 'k5475')
1998
Massimo Bernabò, Il Fisiologo di Smirne: le miniature del perduto codice B. 8 della Biblioteca della Scuola Evangelica di Smirne (Millennio Medievale 7, Studi 1), Florence: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1998, pp. 13, 102

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Summary Catalogue no. 3404 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 15)
Summary of contents Phalaris, Epistles. Apollonius, Epistles. Brutus, Epistles.
Language Greek
Date 16th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 592
Quarto image Col. 593
Bibliography
1997
Martin Sicherl, Griechische Erstausgaben des Aldus Manutius: Druckvorlagen, Stellenwert, kultureller Hintergrund (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alterums, N.F., Reihe 1: Monographien, Band 10), Paderborn, etc.: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1997, p. 271 (as 'Seldenianus 15')

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 17
Summary Catalogue no. 3405 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 16)
Summary of contents Astronomical treatises.
Language Greek
Date 15th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Cols. 593-594
Bibliography
1994
Cited in more than one article by Anne Tihon, Etudes d'astronomie byzantine [collected articles] (Collected Studies Series, CS454), Aldershot, etc.: Variorum, 1994, Articles IV, pp. 4, 8 & nn. 10 and 14, 9 & n. 21, 10-11, 16, 18, 20; VI, pp. 402, 413-4

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Summary Catalogue no. 3406 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 17)
Summary of contents Aeschylus, Prometheus Vinctus; Septem contra Thebas. Lycophron, Cassandra, with commentary of Isaac Tzetzes.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 14th century, end
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 595

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Summary Catalogue no. 3407 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 18)
Summary of contents Manuel Moschopoulos, Schedographia. Written in the hand of Johannes Serbopoulos, a Greek scribe working in England.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine English
Date 15th century, end
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 595
Bibliography
1995
Jonathan Harris, Greek emigres in the West 1400-1520, Camberley: Porphyrogenitus, 1995, p. 147 and n. 131

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Summary Catalogue no. 3408 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 19)
Summary of contents Nicomachus Gerasenus, Arithmetica.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 14th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 621
Quarto image Col. 595

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Summary Catalogue no. 3410
Summary of contents Quintilian, Declamationes.
Language Latin
Origin Italian, Rome
Date 15th century, middle
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine border, initials. Humanistic script, possibly not written by an Italian. Probably made for Richard Bole, who was in Rome c. 1447-1448 and was later associated with the Kemp family. (P&A ii. 250, pl. XXII)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 622
Bibliography
1992
The History of the University of Oxford, vol. II, Late Medieval Oxford, eds. J. I. Catto & Ralph Evans, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, p. xxxiii [list of unprinted sources]

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Summary Catalogue no. 3411
Summary of contents Juvenal, Satires, with glosses.
Language Latin
Date 13th century, first half
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 622
Bibliography
1999
Ruth J. Dean (with Maureen B. M. Boulton), Anglo-Norman literature: a guide to texts and manuscripts (Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, No. 3), London 1999, no. 629

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R.

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 24
Summary Catalogue no. 3412
Composite six parts
Summary of contents Aristotle, treatises, in early Latin translations, with glosses.
Language Latin
Origin English, St. Albans Abbey (?)
Date late 12th century to early 13th century
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 622
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 623
Bibliography
1997
Charles Burnett, The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (The Panizzi Lectures 1996), London: The British Library, 1997, pp. 69, 71-2, 82, 104 n. 191
1994
Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, 'Translation and translators' [first published in 1982], reprinted in her collected essays [vol. III], La transmission des textes philosophiques et scientifiques au Moyen Age, ed. Charles Burnett (Variorum Collected Studies Series), Aldershot: Variorum, 1994, Art. II p. 454n
Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, 'Richard Hunt and Avicenna latinus' [first published 1980], reprinted in her collected essays [vol. III], La transmission des textes philosophiques et scientifiques au Moyen Age, ed. Charles Burnett (Variorum Collected Studies Series), Aldershot: Variorum, 1994, Art. VI p. 51
Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, 'Les nouveaux apports dans les domaines de la science et de la pensée au temps de Philippe Auguste: la philosophie' [paper delivered 1980, first published 1982], reprinted in her collected essays [vol. III], La transmission des textes philosophiques et scientifiques au Moyen Age, ed. Charles Burnett (Variorum Collected Studies Series), Aldershot: Variorum, 1994, Art. XVII pp. 873, 877n
1993
Piero Morpurgo, L'armonia degli "elementi": fuoco, aria, acqua, terra nei dibattiti salernitani (Centro studi e documentazione della Scuola Medica Salernitana, Quaderni, 13), Salerno 1993, pp. 24, 25 nn. 65-6, 27 n. 69
1991
N. G. Wilson, 'Ioannikios and Burgundio: a survey of the problem', in Scritture, libri e testi nelle aree provinciali di Bisanzio: Atti del seminario di Erice (18-25 settembre 1988) (eds. Guglielmo Cavallo, Giuseppe de Gregorio & Marilena Maniaci), 2 vols. (= Biblioteca del "Centro per il collegamento degli studi medievali e umanistici nell' Università di Perugia", 5), Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull' alto medioevo, 1991, vol. II, pp. 447-455, at p. 451

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Summary Catalogue no. 3413
Composite fols. 1-44 || fols. 45-75, 76-93 || fols. 94-129 || fols. 130-174 || fols. 175-211 || fols. 212-244
Summary of contents Boethius, De institutione arithmetica. || Boethius, De institutione musica. || Astronomical and mathematical treatises. || Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Bks. i-ii and viii (incomplete). || Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, with Macrobius' commentary. || Robert Grosseteste, Compotus correctorius.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 12th century, end || 12th century, first half and 14th century, early || 12th century || 12th century, end || 12th century || 13th century, late
Material parchment

Decoration
Good initials, diagrams. (P&A iii. 202) || Good diagrams. Initials added, 14th century. (P&A iii. 121) || - || Fine and good initials. (P&A iii. 203, pl. XX) || - || -

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 623
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 624
Bibliography
1995
Codices Boethiani: a conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius. I, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, eds. M. T. Gibson & Lesley Smith (Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25), London: The Warburg Institute, University of London, 1995, pp. 214-6 no. 201

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
1994
David N. Dumville, 'English libraries before 1066: use and abuse of the manuscript evidence' [revised version of article first printed 1981], in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings, ed. Mary P. Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York & London 1994, pp. 169-219, at p. 208
1992
Hilary M. Carey, Courting disaster: astrology at the English court and university in the later Middle Ages, Basingstoke & London, 1992, pp. 45, 177

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 26
Summary Catalogue no. 3414
Composite fols. 5-12 || fols. 13-16 || fols. 17-23 || fols. 24-76, 77-95 || fols. 96-100 || fols. 101-105 || fols. 106-121 || fols. 122-129. A further section, now separated, is MS. Selden Supra 90, fols. 30-37
Summary of contents Treatise on fractions. || Treatise on arithmetic in French verse. || Treatise on arithmetic. || Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, with Macrobius' Commentary (made up from two MSS.). || 'Liber alguorismorum'. || Treatise on astronomy, mainly on the planet Saturn (incomplete). || Treatise on fractions and roots. || Treatise on composition of astronomical tables.
Language Latin || French || Latin and French || Latin || Latin || Latin || Latin || Latin
Origin French (?) || French || French (?) || French (?) || French (?) || French (?) || French (?) || French (?)
Date 13th century || 13th century || 13th century || 12th century, second half || 12th century, late || 13th century, early || 13th century, early || 13th century, early
Material parchment

Decoration
- || - || - || Initials, diagrams. Made up from two MSS., fols. 24-76 earlier in date. (P&A iii. 267, as English (?)) || - || - || - || -

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 624
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 625
Bibliography
1997
Charles Burnett, The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (The Panizzi Lectures 1996), London: The British Library, 1997, p. 97 n. 128
1992
Hilary M. Carey, Courting disaster: astrology at the English court and university in the later Middle Ages, Basingstoke & London, 1992, pp. 45, 177

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 27
Summary Catalogue no. 3415
Summary of contents Troper.
Language Latin
Origin German, Heidenheim
Date 11th century, second half
Material parchment

Decoration
Good initials. (P&A i. 44)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 625
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 626
Bibliography
1998
Ann-Katrin Andrews Johansson, Tropes for the Proper of the Mass 4: The Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Corpus Troporum IX), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1998, p. 23 (siglum 'Ox 27'), etc.
1996
Claudia Höhl, Ottonische Buchmalerei in Prüm (Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe XXVIII, Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 252), Frankfurt am Main, etc.: Peter Lang, 1996, pp. 86, 89
Volker Schier, Tropen zum Fest der Erscheinung des Herrn (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik, 4), Paderborn, etc.: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1996, p. 264 (list of sources)
1993
Wulf Arlt, 'Schichten und Wege in der Überlieferung der älteren Tropen zum Introitus Nunc scio vere des Petrus-Festes', in Recherches nouvelles sur les tropes liturgiques: recueil d'Études. Corpus Troporum, eds. Wulf Arlt & Gunilla Björkvall (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Studia Latina Stockholmensia, 36), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993, pp. 13-93, at pp. 17, 21-3, 27, 30-35, 47, 71, 74, 89
Gunilla Björkvall & Andreas Haug, 'Tropentypen in Sankt Gallen', in Recherches nouvelles sur les tropes liturgiques: recueil d'Études. Corpus Troporum, eds. Wulf Arlt & Gunilla Björkvall (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Studia Latina Stockholmensia, 36), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993, pp. 119-74, at pp. 134, 137, 140, 160
Pierre-Marie Gy, 'L'hypothèse lotharingienne et la diffusion des tropes', in Recherches nouvelles sur les tropes liturgiques: recueil d'Études. Corpus Troporum, eds. Wulf Arlt & Gunilla Björkvall (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Studia Latina Stockholmensia, 36), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993, pp. 231-7, at p. 234
Ritva Maria Jacobsson, 'Poésie liturgique et fond biblique. Essai sur quatre complexes de tropes en l'honneur de Saint Pierre apôtre et sur leur transmission', in Recherches nouvelles sur les tropes liturgiques: recueil d'Études. Corpus Troporum, eds. Wulf Arlt & Gunilla Björkvall (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Studia Latina Stockholmensia, 36), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993, pp. 309-41, at pp. 329, 334, 337, 339
1991
Ritva Maria Jacobsson, 'Les plus anciens tropes des saints: Caractère et fonction', in Lateinische Kultur im X. Jahrhundert: Akten des I. Internationalen Mittellateinerkongresses Heidelberg, 12.--15.IX.1988 (= Mittelateinisches Jahrbuch, Band 24/25 for 1989/1990), Stuttgart 1991, pp. 203-213, at p. 210
1990
Gunilla Iversen, ed., Tropes du Sanctus (Corpus Troporum VII, Tropes de l'ordinaire de la messe = Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia 34), Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1990: siglum 'Ox 27', p. 239, pl. IV [fol. 89]

Bodleian shelfmark: = R. 12. 103
1989
Sigrid Krämer [with Michael Bernhard for vol. 3], Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols. (= Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1), Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1989-90: Heidenheim (?)

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 28
Summary Catalogue no. 3416 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 53)
Summary of contents Four Gospels.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine, Constantinople and Italian (?)
Date 13th century, end/14th century, beginning
Material parchment

Decoration
Ornamental strips and decorated initials. Erased miniature (15th century, first half) (fol. 4v). Added Western ornamental strips and decorated initials (15th century, end/16th century, first quarter). (Hutter, III. 187)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 626
Quarto image Cols. 615-616
Bibliography
1994
Giancarlo Prato, 'Scritture librarie arcaizzanti della prima età dei Paleologi e loro modelli' [first published 1979], reprinted in his collected articles, Studi di paleografia greca, Spoleto 1994, pp. 73-114, Tavv. 1-24, at p. 102

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 29
Summary Catalogue no. 3417 (Quarto Catalogue I, Cod. Seld. no. 54)
Summary of contents Four Gospels.
Language Greek
Origin Byzantine
Date 1337/1338
Material parchment

Decoration
Canon tables. Ornamental strips and decorated initials at the beginnings of Gospels. (Hutter, III. 155)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 626
Quarto image Col. 616
Quarto image Cols. 617-618
Bibliography
1991
H. Hunger, 'Die byzantinische Minuskel des 14. Jahrhunderts zwischen Tradition und Neuerung', in Paleografia e codicologia greca: Atti del II Colloquio internazionale (Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983), eds. Dieter Harlfinger & Giancarlo Prato, 2 vols. (= Biblioteca di Scrittura e Civiltà, 3), Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1991, Tom. I, pp. 151-161; Tom. II, pp. 97-106: at Tom. I, p. 158 (= Rep. 122)

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 30
Summary Catalogue no. 3418
Summary of contents Acts of the Apostles.
Language Latin
Origin English, South - Thanet (?)
Date 8th century, first half
Material parchment

Decoration
Good initial (defaced). (P&A iii. 2)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 626
Bibliography
2001
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a list of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241), Tempe AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001, no. 665

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.
1998
Richard Marsden, ' 'Ask what I am called': the Anglo-Saxons and their bibles', in The Bible as Book: the manuscript tradition, eds. John L. Sharpe III & Kimberly Van Kampen, London & New Castle, DE: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1998, pp. 145-176, at pp. 156, 167 n. 67, 174
Sigrid Krämer, Bibliographie Bernhard Bischoff und Verzeichnis aller von ihm herangezogenen Handschriften (Fuldaer Hochschulschriften, 27), Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Josef Knecht, 1998, No. 16, 38; No. 142, 92; No. 148, 332
1997
Richard Gameson, Saint Augustine of Canterbury [accompanying booklet for exhibition at Canterbury], [Canterbury] 1997, p. 22 no. 29, p. 33 fig. (pp. 16-17)
P. R. Robinson, 'A twelfth-century scriptrix from Nunnaminster', in Of the making of books: medieval manuscripts, their scribes and readers. Essays presented to M. B. Parkes, ed. P. R. Robinson & Rivkah Zim, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997, pp. 73-93, at p. 83 n. 47

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
Mildred Budny, Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman manuscript art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: an illustrated catalogue, 2 vols., Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1997, Vol. I, p. 7
1994
Richard Gameson, 'The Royal 1. B. vii Gospels and English book production in the seventh and eighth centuries', in The early medieval bible: its production, decoration and use, ed. Richard Gameson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 24-52, at p. 46 n. 103

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 31
Summary Catalogue no. 3419
Summary of contents 'Chronica mendosa Sarracenorum' to 683 A.D., Latin translation by Robert of Ketton. 'De generacione Mahumet'. ' Doctrina Mahumet'. Koran, Latin translation by Robert of Ketton.
Language Latin
Date 13th century
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 626
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 627
Bibliography
1998
Richard Sharpe, 'Reconstructing the medieval library of Bury St Edmunds abbey: the lost catalogue of Henry of Kirkstead', in Bury St Edmunds: medieval art, architecture, archaeology and economy, ed. Antonia Gransden (The British Archaeological Association Transactions, 20), [n. pl.], 1998, pp. 204-18, at p. 213

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 32
Summary Catalogue no. 3420
Summary of contents Petrus de Argellata, De chirurgia (fragment).
Language Latin and Irish
Origin Irish
Date 15th or 16th century (?)
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 627
Bibliography
2001
Brian Ó Cuív, Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College libraries, Part 1, Descriptions, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001, pp. xxi, xxxiii, 274-5 no. 41
1997
Handschriftenarchiv Bernhard Bischoff (Bibliothek der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Hs. C 1, C 2): Microfiche-Edition, ed. Arno Mentzel-Reuters [with list of MSS. by Zdenka Stoklaskova & Marcus Stumpf] (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Hilfsmittel 16), Munich 1997, Fiche 48: XCVII.5.15

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 34
Summary Catalogue no. 3422
Summary of contents Alessandro Ariosto, Topografia terre promissionis. Francesco Ariosto, De oleorum principis olei Monzibinii situ ortu ui uirtuteque. Correspondence with Borso d'Este. Etc.
Language Latin
Origin Italian, Ferrara
Date after 1464
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine initials. Humanistic script. (P&A ii. 394)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 628

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 35
Summary Catalogue no. 3423
Summary of contents Gregory the Great, Pastoral care. Ps.-Ambrose, Libellus de dignitate sacerdotali. Gregory Nazianzen, Apologeticus, tr., with preface of Rufinus.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 12th century, end
Material parchment

Decoration
Initials. (P&A iii. 235)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 628
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 629

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 36
Summary Catalogue no. 3424
Composite fols. 1-32 || fols. 33-72
Summary of contents Anselm, Cur Deus homo. || Richard of Waltham, De laude sanctae Crucis.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 12th century, end || 13th century, first half
Material parchment

Decoration
Initial. || Fleuronnée borders, initials. (P&A iii. 406)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 629
Bibliography
2001
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a list of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241), Tempe AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001, no. 666 (part) [fols. 73-4]

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 36*
Summary Catalogue no. 3424*
Summary of contents Leaf of an Antiphoner containing part of the Office of St. Justus, with neums. Until 1909 this was at the beginning of MS. Selden Supra 36. A small fragment of the same MS. is fols. 73-74 there.
Language Latin
Origin English, Winchester (?)
Date 11th century, late (?)
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 629
Bibliography
2001
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: a list of manuscripts and manuscript fragments written or owned in England up to 1100 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241), Tempe AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001, no. 666 (part)

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.
1999
Richard Gameson, The manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130), Oxford, etc.: OUP for The British Academy, 1999, p. 118, part of no. 546
1994
David N. Dumville, 'English libraries before 1066: use and abuse of the manuscript evidence' [revised version of article first printed 1981], in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts: basic readings, ed. Mary P. Richards (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 2 = Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1434), New York & London 1994, pp. 169-219, at p. 200 [= Gneuss no. 666]

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 37
Summary Catalogue no. 3425
Summary of contents Processional. Use of Sarum.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date c. 1420-1430
Material parchment

Decoration
Good border, initial. (P&A iii. 881)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 629

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 38
Summary Catalogue no. 3426
Composite fols. 1-36 || fols. 37-129
Summary of contents Gesta infantiae salvatoris. || Apocalypse.
Language French
Origin English
Date c. 1315-1325
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine miniatures. (P&A iii. 579, pl. LIX) || Fine and good miniatures, borders, initials. Partly damaged. (P&A iii. 578, pl. LX)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 629
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 630
Bibliography
2001
Mary Clemente Davlin, The place of God in Piers Plowman and medieval art, Aldershot, etc.: Ashgate, 2001, p. 68 n. 18 (fols. 21v, 22v)
1999
Ruth J. Dean (with Maureen B. M. Boulton), Anglo-Norman literature: a guide to texts and manuscripts (Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, No. 3), London 1999, nos. 475, 495

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R.
1996
Nigel Ramsay, 'Forms of artistic expression', in An illustrated history of late medieval England, ed. Chris Given-Wilson, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 152-177, at p. 169 plates (fols. 21v, 22v)
1991
Penelope Walton, 'Textiles', in English medieval industries: craftsmen, techniques, products (eds. John Blair & Nigel Ramsay), London & Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1991, pp. 319-354, at p. 333 fig. 172
1990
Nigel Morgan, ed., The Lambeth Apocalypse: Manuscript 209 in Lambeth Palace Library. A Critical Study (Commentary Text Volume to the Facsimile Edition), London: Harvey Miller, 1990, p. 22 n. 29; p. 49; p. 92 n. 5; p. 96 n. 31; App. III p. 273
1983
Maureen Boulton, 'The Evangile de l'Enfance: text and illustration in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Selden supra 38', Scriptorium, 37 no. 1 (1983), pp. 54-63

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 39
Summary Catalogue no. 3427
Summary of contents Penitential.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 14th century, end
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine historiated border, historiated and other initials. Fine drawing, fol. 68. (P&A iii. 730, pl. LXXII)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 630
Bibliography
2000
Michael Haren, Sin and society in fourteenth-century England: a study of the Memoriale presbiterorum (Oxford Historical Monographs), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000, pp. 219-220; 224 (listing in Bibliography only)
1990
Kathleen L. Scott, 'The illustrations of Piers Plowman in Bodleian Library MS Douce 104', The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 4 (1990), 1-86 at p. 25 n. 42

Bodleian shelfmark: = REFS. LXXXVII.17

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 40
Summary Catalogue no. 3428
Summary of contents Ordinal. Use of York.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 15th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 630
Bibliography
1995
John B. Friedman, Northern English books, owners and makers in the late Middle Ages, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995, p. 30

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 41
Summary Catalogue no. 3429
Summary of contents Collections by bishop John Bale (d. 1563) relating to the Carmelite order.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date c. 1540-1550
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 630
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 631
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 632
Bibliography
1997
Anne Hudson, 'Visio Baleii: an early literary historian', in The Long Fifteenth Century: essays for Douglas Gray, eds. Helen Cooper & Sally Mapstone, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, pp. 313-329, at p. 316
1993
P. O. Kristeller, Studies in Renaissance thought and letters, III (Storia e letteratura: raccolta di studi e testi, 178) [collected articles], Rome 1993, p. 51
1992
Carmel in Britain: Essays on the Medieval English Carmelite Province, ed. Patrick Fitzgerald-Lombard, 2 vols., Rome: C.E. Institutum Carmelitanum, 1992, passim

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 43
Summary Catalogue no. 3431
Composite two parts
Summary of contents Collection of English Constitutiones ecclesiasticae. || Ordinal. Use of Sarum.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 15th century, first half
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 632
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 633

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 48
Summary Catalogue no. 3436
Summary of contents Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 13th century, late
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 634
Bibliography
1976
Mary A. Rouse & Richard H. Rouse, 'The development of research tools in the thirteenth century' [first published and republished, 1976-9], reprinted in their collected articles, Authentic Witnesses: approaches to medieval texts and manuscripts (Publications in medieval studies [The Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame], 17) [= reprinted articles], Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991, pp. 221-55, at p. 235 n. 36

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 49
Summary Catalogue no. 3437
Summary of contents Four Gospels (later Wycliffite version).
Language English
Origin English
Date 15th century, beginning
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine borders, initials. (P&A iii. 850)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 634

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 51
Summary Catalogue no. 3439
Summary of contents New Testament (later Wycliffite version).
Language English
Origin English
Date 15th century, beginning
Material parchment

Decoration
Good borders, initials. (P&A iii. 853)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 634

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 52
Summary Catalogue no. 3440
Summary of contents A paraphrase of Old Testament history, including Judith and the Maccabees-18,372 lines in 12-line stanzas, beginning: 'God fader in heuyn of myghtes most That mad this mold & all man kynd'. Thirty-five rhymed narratives from the Northern homily cycle.
Language English
Origin English
Date 15th century, middle
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 635
Bibliography
1997
Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III's books: ideals and reality in the life and library of a medieval prince, Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1997, p. 281
1990
Derek Pearsall, ed., Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990, pp. 81, 87

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 53
Summary Catalogue no. 3441
Summary of contents Thomas Hoccleve, various poems including 'To lerne to die'. John Lydgate, The Dance of Death.
Language English
Origin English
Date c. 1430
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine miniature, initials. Marginal scribbles, fol. 91v. (P&A iii. 888, pl. LXXXIV)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 635
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 636
Bibliography
2001
Middle English poetry: texts and traditions. Essays in honour of Derek Pearsall, ed. A. J. Minnis (York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, 5), York & Woodbridge, etc.: York Medieval Press, 2001, pp. 170, 172, 173, 174
2000
A. S. G. Edwards, 'Fifteenth-century Middle English verse author collections', in The English medieval book: studies in memory of Jeremy Griffiths, eds. A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie & Ralph Hanna, London: The British Library, 2000, pp. 101-112, at p. 109
1997
Kathleen L. Scott, 'The illustration and decoration of manuscripts of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ', in Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceedings of the International Conference 20-22 July 1995 (eds. Shoichi Oguro, Richard Beadle & Michael G. Sargent), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997, pp. 61-86, at p. 71
1996
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996, I, p. 39

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.
1991
S. Kohl et al., general ed. H. U. Seeber, Englische Literaturgeschichte, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1991, p. 42 [fol. 118r]

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 54
Summary Catalogue no. 3442
Summary of contents Bartolomeo Facio, Dialogus de uitae felicitate; letter to Bartholomew Strozi. Maffeo Vegio, De felicitate et miseria dialogus.
Language Latin
Origin Italian
Date 15th century, second half
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 636

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 55
Summary Catalogue no. 3443
Summary of contents Life of St. Edward the Confessor (written in the reign of Henry VI).
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 15th century, second quarter
Material parchment

Decoration
Good border, historiated initial in antiquated style. (P&A iii. 941)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 636
Bibliography
2000
Andrew G. Watson, 'Robert Hare's books', in The English medieval book: studies in memory of Jeremy Griffiths, eds. A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie & Ralph Hanna, London: The British Library, 2000, pp. 209-232, at p. 222

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 56
Summary Catalogue no. 3444
Summary of contents Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde.
Language English
Origin English
Date 1441
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 636
Bibliography
1997
Julia Boffey & A. S. G. Edwards, with B. C. Barker-Benfield, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer and The Kingis Quair: a facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B. 24, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997, at pp. 23, 30 and n. 4, 32 n. 9

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.
1996
Ralph Hanna III, Pursuing history: Middle English manuscripts and their texts, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996, p. 310 n.3
1995
Julia Boffey, 'Annotation in some manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, eds. P. Beal & J. Griffiths, 5 (1995), pp. 1-17, at pp. 2, 10, 11
M. C. Seymour, A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts. Vol. 1, Works before the Canterbury Tales, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995, pp. 63-4
1992
M. C. Seymour, 'The manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus', Scriptorium, 46 no. 1 (1992), pp. 107-121
Ralph Hanna III, 'The manuscripts and transmission of Chaucer's Troilus', in The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (ed. James M. Dean & Christian K. Zacher), Newark, Delaware etc., 1992, pp. 173-188, at p. 187 n. 6 (siglum S2)

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 57
Summary Catalogue no. 3445
Summary of contents Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Le roman de la rose.
Language French
Origin French, Paris
Date 1348
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine miniatures (some defaced), border, initials. (P&A i. 597, pl. XLV)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 636
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 637
Alternative form available full digital facsimile
Bibliography
1997
Mechthild Modersohn, Natura als Göttin im Mittelalter: ikonographische Studien zu Darstellungen der personifizierten Natur (Acta humaniora: Schriften zur Kunstwissen- schaft und Philosophie), Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997, p. 222 no. 40
1989
Herman Braet, 'Der Roman der Rose, Raum im Blick', in Träume im Mittelalter: Ikonologische Studien (eds. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani & Giorgio Stabile), Stuttgart & Zürich: Belser Verlag, 1989, 183-192, at p. 191

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 65
Summary Catalogue no. 3453
Summary of contents Treatises on literary composition. Copies of 18 letters to the Pope or to papal court from English bishops etc., c. 1400.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 15th century, first half
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 638
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 639
Bibliography
1999
Alan Coates, English Medieval Books: the Reading Abbey collections from foundation to dispersal, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999, p. 105
1996
R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson & A. G. Watson, eds., English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1996, B89.6

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
1995
Martin Camargo, ed., Medieval rhetorics of prose composition: five English Artes dictandi and their tradition (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 115), Binghamton, New York 1995, p. 235 (list of MSS. cited)
John O. Ward, Ciceronian rhetoric in treatise, scholion and commentary (Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 58, A-V.A.1*), Turnhout: Brepols, 1995, p. 171 n. 369
1994
Emil J. Polak, Medieval and Renaissance letter treatises and form letters: a census of manuscripts found in part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of America (Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, 9), Leiden, etc.: E. J. Brill, 1994, p. 382

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
1993
R. A. B. Mynors & R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer for The Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, 1993, p. 126

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.
1990
K. W. Humphreys, ed., The Friars' Libraries (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 1), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1990

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 66
Summary Catalogue no. 3454
Summary of contents Adam of Eynsham, Visio Eadmundi monachi de Eynesham.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 14th century, late
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 639

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 67
Summary Catalogue no. 3455
Summary of contents Commissio of Doge Nicolò Tron (1471-73) to Christoforo Duodo.
Language Italian and Latin
Origin Italian, Venice
Date 1472
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine border and historiated initial. The date 1466 copied in error has been altered to 1472, fol. 25v. (P&A ii. 506, pl. XLVIII)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 639

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 68
Summary Catalogue no. 3456
Summary of contents Commissio of Doge Girolamo Priuli (1559-67) appointing Girolamo Venier 'capitaneus' of Brescia.
Language Italian and Latin
Origin Italian, Venice
Date 1563
Material parchment

Decoration
Fine miniatures, initial on a separate leaf. Related to the style associated with Giorgio Colonna. Additions by Agostino Spinelli and Vincenzo Carbabeno, fols. 207-209. (P&A ii. 1016, pl. LXXXIV)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 640

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 69
Summary Catalogue no. 3457
Summary of contents John of Ibelin and others, The Assizes of Jerusalem: adopted in 1369 as Code of Laws for the Kingdom of Cyprus.
Language French
Origin French (?) Levant Cyprus (?)
Date 14th century, first half
Material parchment

Decoration
Penwork initials. (P&A i. 601)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 640
Bibliography
1997
Julia Boffey & A. S. G. Edwards, with B. C. Barker-Benfield, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer and The Kingis Quair: a facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B. 24, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997, at p. 31 [binding]

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 70
Summary Catalogue no. 3458
Summary of contents 'La Coustume de Normendie'.
Language French
Origin French, Normandy (?)
Date c. 1300
Material parchment

Decoration
Fleuronnée initials.

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 640

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 72
Summary Catalogue no. 3460
Summary of contents Four short treatises relating to the Carmelite order, with corrections in the hand of John Bale.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 16th century, second quarter (?)
Material parchment, paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 641
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 642
Bibliography
1997
Anne Hudson, 'Visio Baleii: an early literary historian', in The Long Fifteenth Century: essays for Douglas Gray, eds. Helen Cooper & Sally Mapstone, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, pp. 313-329, at p. 316

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 73
Summary Catalogue no. 3461
Composite five parts
Summary of contents Medical and astrological treatises and notes.
Language English and Latin
Origin English
Date 15th century, late
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 642

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 74
Summary Catalogue no. 3462
Summary of contents Moral, theological and scientific texts in prose and verse.
Language Latin and French
Origin English
Date 13th century, second half
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 642
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 643
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 644
Bibliography
2000
Pierre d'Abernon of Fetcham, La Lumere as Lais, ed. Glynn Hesketh, vol. III, (Anglo-Norman Text Society, 58), London 2000, p. 19 etc. (siglum 'U')
1999
George R. Keiser, 'Practical books for the gentleman', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. III, 1400-1557, eds. Lotte Hellinga & J. B. Trapp, Cambridge 1999, pp. 470-494, at p. 474 and n. 17
SCWMSS archive: = REFS. CXIII.16 [copy of this article only]
Ruth J. Dean (with Maureen B. M. Boulton), Anglo-Norman literature: a guide to texts and manuscripts (Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, No. 3), London 1999, nos. 13, 197r, 231, 252, 258, 260, 266 (B), 285, 394, 593, 629, 630, 691

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R.
1998
Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: the development of a Middle English Chronicle (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180), Tempe, AZ, 1998, p. xviii n.
1995
Andreas Epe, Wissensliteratur im angelsächsischen England: das Fachschrifttum der vergessenen artes mechanicae und artes magicae. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Somniale Danielis: Edition der (lateinisch-)altenglischen Fassungen (Diss. Westf. Wilhelms-Universität Münster 1995), Münster/Westf.: Verlag Tebbert KG, 1995, p. 106 (siglum 'AO')
1993
Margaret Laing, Catalogue of sources for a linguistic atlas of early medieval English, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993, p. 142
Z. Izydorczyk, Manuscripts of the Evangelium Nicodemi: a census (Subsidia Mediaevalia 21), Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1993, pp. 124-5 no. 239
1991
M. B. Parkes, Scribes, scripts and readers: studies in the communication, presentation and dissemination of medieval texts [collected essays], London & Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1991, p. 284
1990
David L. Jeffrey & Brian J. Levy, The Anglo-Norman Lyric, an anthology: edited from the manuscripts with translations and commentary (Studies and Texts, 93), Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1990, pp. 150, 154, 205, 208, 221

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 75
Summary Catalogue no. 3463
Summary of contents Thomas of Cantimpré, De naturis rerum. Testamentum xii patriarcharum, tr. Robert Grosseteste.
Language Latin
Origin English (?)
Date 14th century, first half
Material parchment

Decoration
Penwork.

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 644

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 76
Summary Catalogue no. 3464
Summary of contents Treatises, chiefly astronomical and alchemical.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 13th century
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 644
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 645
Bibliography
1998
Claire Fanger, ed., Conjuring Spirits: texts and traditions of medieval ritual magic (The Magic in History Series), Thrupp, Stroud: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1998, p. 274 (listing in Bibliography only)
1996
R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson & A. G. Watson, eds., English Benedictine libraries: the shorter catalogues (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1996, B113.11

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R
1990
K. W. Humphreys, ed., The Friars' Libraries (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 1), London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 1990

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 77
Summary Catalogue no. 3465
Summary of contents Gulielmus Parronus Placentinus, De astrorum ui fatali. Dedicated to Henry VII.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 1499
Material parchment

Decoration
Good border, historiated initial. Imitation of Flemish style. (P&A iii. 1125, pl. CVI)

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 645
Bibliography
1996
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996, II, pp. 347, 365

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.
1992
Hilary M. Carey, Courting disaster: astrology at the English court and university in the later Middle Ages, Basingstoke & London, 1992, p. 219

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 78
Summary Catalogue no. 3466
Summary of contents Translations of Arabic astrological and astronomical pieces.
Language Latin
Date 14th century, early
Material parchment

Decoration
Illuminated capitals and borders.

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 645
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 646

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 81
Summary Catalogue no. 3469
Composite two parts
Summary of contents Copies of 321 Latin letters, dedications, and poems, almost all by Dr. Degory Whear, 1595-1631. || Sermons on the Gospels, imperfect at beginning and end.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 17th century || 15th century
Material paper || parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 647
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 648

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 82
Summary Catalogue no. 3470
Summary of contents Treatise on astrology and geomancy.
Language German
Origin German
Date 16th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 648

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 83
Summary Catalogue no. 3471
Summary of contents Treatise on geomancy.
Language German
Origin German
Date 16th century
Material paper
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 648

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 87
Summary Catalogue no. 3475
Summary of contents Treatises and notes on Canon Law.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 13th century, late
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 649
Bibliography
1993
R. A. B. Mynors & R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer for The Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, 1993, p. 75

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 88
Summary Catalogue no. 3476
Summary of contents Transcript of printed edition of Giovanni Nanni, Glossa super Apocalypsim.
Language Latin
Date 1481 or soon after
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 649
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 650

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 90
Summary Catalogue no. 3478
Composite fols. 1-21 || B || fols. 30-37 (formerly part of MS. Selden Supra 26) || D || E
Summary of contents John Somer, astronomical calendar, etc. || Church documents. || Astronomical tables with a Flemish calendar and late 13th-century additions made at St. Augustine's Canterbury. || 'The manner & forme of the Coronation of the Kinges of Scotland'. || 'Narracio breuis et compendiosa rerum mirabilium regni Chinæ'.
Language English and Latin
Origin English || ? || Flemish (?) || English || ?
Date 15th century, second quarter (c. 1434 (?)) || 12th century, late (1192 or after) || c. 1180 || 16th century || c. 1600
Material parchment || parchment || parchment || paper || paper

Decoration
Fine miniature (retouched). Easter tables from 1434, fol. 15. (P&A iii. 897, pl. LXXXVI) || - || - || - || -

Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 650
Bibliography
1998
Linne R. Mooney, ed., The Kalendarium of John Somer (The Chaucer Library), Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1998, pp. xii, 49 (siglum Ss); p. 32 n. 96; pp. 51, 79-80 [Part 1, fols. 1-14v]
1996
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6), 2 vols., London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996, I, p. 71 n. 6; II, pp. 98, 201

Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Pal.

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 93
Summary Catalogue no. 3481
Summary of contents Thomas àKempis, Imitatio Christi (imperfect).
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 1469
Material parchment
Images
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 651

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 94
Summary Catalogue no. 3482
Summary of contents Works by or attributed to Roger Bacon.
Language Latin
Origin English
Date 15th century, first half
Material parchment
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Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 651
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 652

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 95
Summary Catalogue no. 3483
Composite A || B || fols. 103-110
Summary of contents Italian-Dalmatian vocabulary. || 'Historia de illo celebri in Vienna conuentu trium regum Sigismundi Polonie, Wladislai Hungarie et Bohemie, [et] Ludouici filij eius cum Maximiliano Cæsare, qui fuit anno 1515'. || Calendar. Use of Sarum (London).
Language Italian, Dalmatian || Latin || Latin
Origin ? || ? || English, London
Date 16th century || 16th century || after c. 1444
Material paper || paper || parchment

Decoration
- || - || Good initials. Cycles of movable feasts from 1444 to 1575. (P&A iii. 908)

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Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 652

Shelfmark MS. Selden Supra 102
Summary Catalogue no. 3490b
Summary of contents Manuscript fragments from Selden printed books.
Language Latin
Date 12th century - 15th century
Material parchment, paper
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Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 653
Catalogue image Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 654

LwM 13 July 2011