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John of Seville, Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum de regimine sanitatis (recension of Thomas of Cantimpré); Thomas of Cantimpré, de lapidibus; Annals, 413-1553

by Sebaldus Adloff, Hans Albrecht Derschau, Francis Douce, Hispalensis Joannes, Christoph Schwerler & de Cantimpré Thomas

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  • 16th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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John of Seville, Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum de regimine sanitatis (recension of Thomas of Cantimpré); Thomas of Cantimpré, de lapidibus; Annals, 413-1553 Two main codicological units (fols. 1-27 and fols. 28-62), each in turn comprised of smaller sections.

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Bound in pasteboards with cloth spine, formerly covered with part of a 16th-century German heraldic MS., which has been removed and is now MS. Douce d. 5, fols. 7–9 (S.C. 21982); offsets of armorials are visible on the covers and inside the front cover. The old flyleaves repurposed from leaves of another book folded in half and turned sideways, so that their old folio numbers, 175 and 176 in ink, are now aligned vertically at the fore-edge.; Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 164 digitized image(s); ff. i (modern paper) + ii (old paper) + 72 + ii (old paper) + i (modern paper); fols. 1v, 19v, 28v, 32br–32dv, 43ar–43bv, 43dv, 45v–46cv, 62r–63r, 64r–66v are blank.; Most of the decoration consists of coloured woodcuts, within or around which inscriptions have been added (fols. 1r, 2r, 16v, 17r, 17v, 19r, 27v, 28r, 63v). Coloured drawings (fol. 2v). A pair of facing coloured drawings (fol. 31v, 32ar). Diagrams, fols. 11v, 15r, 18r.; Paper; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Douce 85

c. 1535, probably 1533 or soon after—Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Douce 85
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: Germany
  • Record origin: Description (June 2021) by Peter Kidd, edited by Matthew Holford. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue (1897).
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