MS. Bodl. 17
Summary Catalogue no.: 1860
Contents
Here 130 chapters, followed by an alphabetical index of their titles.
Physical Description
Decoration
Illuminated border, capitals.
Binding
Red leather on bevelled boards, clasp lost, contemporary.
Accompanying Material
Foll. i-iii, 162 are fly-leaves from a 13th cent. theological MS.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Fol. 163v is a fragment of some English 14th cent. accounts in which the names of Bodney and Pencriche recur.
Bought with MS. Bodl 64 and many printed books with part of £100 promised by lord Charles Danvers in 1601, but (at any rate in part) only received through sir Edwin Sandys in 1607. This volume is accordingly entered in the Benefactors' Register under the latter year. It is possible that an earlier MS. (the 'Calendarium ...') was lost before 1607, and that this MS. was genuinely acquired in 1607 and put in the place of the other. This volume until after 1620 was called in the Bodleian handlists 'Calendarium cum diversis Chronicis', the index presenting the appearance of a calendar.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-03-19: Description revised to include all information in SC.