A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Bodl. 249

Summary Catalogue no.: 2738

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good penwork borders, initials. Lombards. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 742)

Binding

White sheepskin on boards, contemporary English work, injured.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Titchfield, Hampshire, Premonstratensian abbey of the Assumption of St Mary and St John the Evangelist: 'Hic est liber abbathie beate Marie de Tychefelde ordinis Premonstratensis Wyntoniensis diocesis iuxta Portesmuthe in comitatu Suthampton quem qui ab eadem per fraudem vel per donacionem aut per vendicionem seu alio quoquo modo vel colore alienauerit siue retinuerit qnominus eiusdem abbatie sit, seu qui hunc titulum deleuerit, consilium, auxilium aut assensum in aliquo premiissorum prebuerit, alienatum sit nomen eins de libro vite, & in hoc & in futuro seculo infirmitatem & damnacionem percipiat sempiternam. Insuper & ipse & omnes fautores eius anathema sint maranatha . Fiat fiat in hijs scriptis. Amen'; long inscription stretching over a double opening (fols. 2v–3r). 'B XXV', at foot of fol. 1r. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Columns numbered for each psalm. (MLGB3)

'Ranulphi Barlow': Ralph Barlow presented the book in 1606.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.