MS. Bodl. 279
Summary Catalogue no.: 2241
Contents
In 212 chapters, with some marginal notes and two indexes, one a 15th cent. addition. The original index ends 'Explicit hic Hulcot Sapiencia dragmata dans tot'. The hand changes after fol. 205. On foll. 1-2 are three long passages, the second an omitted part of chapter 69 (fol. 85), the first and third perhaps also omissions in the text.
Physical Description
Decoration
Good penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 656)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Istum librum habuit magister Johannes Raw de bonis magistri Martini lerchedekne [Archdeacon] per manus magistri Michaelis lerchedekne partim ex dono ad orandum pro anima Maartini predicti & partim emit illum ... anno Domini М° CCCC° XXXIX°'
Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter 'Liber Holcote super Sapiens ... Ex dono magistri Johannis Row huius Ecclesie quondam Subdecani'. Row or Raw, subdean of Exeter cathedral, died in 1463. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-08: Matthew Holford: encode full description from Summary Catalogue.