MS. Bodl. 284
Summary Catalogue no.: 2339
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine borders, historiated initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 359, pl. XXX)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin: "Cirencestrie" (fols. iii recto, 119r, 153r, 294r); s. xvi. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
Henry VIII. Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham and 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536--1624), 1604. (MLGB3)
Title in Leland's hand (?) (fol. iii recto), later than the "Cirencestrie" inscription. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (13 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.