MS. Bodl. 249

Summary Catalogue no.: 2738

Language(s): Latin

Form: codex

Support: parchment

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

White sheepskin on boards, contemporary English work, injured.

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

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 ...'; 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).

Ralph Barlow, 1606. (MLGB3)

Columns numbered for each psalm. (MLGB3)

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

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