MS. Bodl. 255
Summary Catalogue no.: 3010
Physical Description
Composite: fols. 1–44 || B
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Presented by sir Walter Cope in 1602: at first probably unbound and put up as a quarto. The second treatise may be a later addition (before the volume was bound) between 1620 and 1635.
MS. Bodl. 255 – Part 1
Contents
Commentary on Augustinian rule
Language(s): Middle English
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
Decoration
Miniature (drawing). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1179, pl. CIX)
History
Provenance
Dartford, Kent, Priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Margaret, of Dominican nuns (?) : Bears the arms of Cressener on fol. 44r: Elizabeth Cressener was prioress, 1485–1536. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
MS. Bodl. 255 – Part 2
Contents
, Commentary on Maccabees (with letter to 'Lodovicus rex' and prologue to Geroldus)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Bibliography
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.