Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1286
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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1286
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1400-1450
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Contains reference to Birgitta
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A handsome and valuable quarto MS. consisting of 257 leaves of vellum, gilt at the edges, written about the year 1400 in a fair text hand, in columns (except the two first pages), with fair margins, and adorned with frequent rubrics, and painted capitals and borders. Three leaves of vellum also are at each end, on on of which (beside some old scribbling) is written in a hand of the time of Henry VII a "Charm against Fever".
Prayer and inscriptions on first flyleaf
F. 256 – odd nonsense marginalia in bottom margin, written in different ink than the scribe or any other annotator
F. 256 – odd nonsense marginalia in bottom margin, written in different ink than the scribe or any other annotator
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Parchment
Folios
261
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