Allestree G.6.1

Binding fragment (manuscript). Leaf from a 14th-century Sarum antiphoner, including chants for St Thomas of Canterbury and St Agnes. Formerly pasted to (and now lifted from) the inside lower cover of Allestree G.6.1, a printed copy of Omnia opera Des. Erasmi Roterodami, quæcunque ipse autor pro suis agnouit. Cum præfatione Beati Rhenani, uitam autoris describente (Basel: per H. Frobenium et H. Episcopium, 1540-42; vols. 1, 4, 5, 8 and 9). The book was bound in Oxford in the second quarter of the 16th century; see Neil R. Ker, Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, with a Survey of Oxford Binding c. 1515-1620, Oxford Bibliographical Society, Third Series, IV (Oxford, 2004), p. 20, no. 202.

Dimensions of the MS leaf (trimmed to fit the binding): upright format, c. 320 x 210 mm.

Provenance: from the library of Richard Allestree (1621/2-81), canon of Christ Church and regius professor of divinity. For information about Allestree, see The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For a brief description of Allestree's library, which was donated to Christ Church on his death for use by his successors as regius professor of divinity, see W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), pp. 14-15.

Not included in the standard microfilm series.

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