University College MS. 169

Barking Abbey, Ordinale

Language(s): Latin & Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: vellum

Decoration

Illuminated initials, penwork initials with faces. "Fine borders, initials. Fine penwork initials." (Alexander and Temple, p. 38)

Binding

"New Bound. 1731." (note on inside upper board) 1731 panelled reversed calf, lacking clasps

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; England; Barking Abbey

Provenance and Acquisition

Note of f. 6v: "Memorandum quod anno domini millesimo quadragintesimo quarto domina Sibilla . . . Abbatissa de Berkyng hunc librum ad usum Abbatissarum in dicta domo . . . concessit." "Commissioned and given to Barking abbey in 1404 by Sibilla de Felton, abbess 1394-1419, p. 2. Obits of Barking abbesses, fols. i-v, saec. xv. Obadiah Walker, master 1676-89. Sold at the sale of John Humphrey of Rothwell, 4 Dec., 1682, lot 20." (Alexander and Temple)

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 47

J. J. G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985), Cat. No. 387 [information on decoration and origin]

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (ed.), The Index of Middle English Prose VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Cambridge, 1991), p. 121

Availability

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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