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MS. Bodl. 391

Summary Catalogue no.: 2222

Contents

1.
Isidore of Seville, works
Language(s): Latin
3.
Augustine, Retractationes
Language(s): Latin
4.
Cassiodorus, Institutiones (book 1)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 51, pl. VI)

History

Origin: 11th century, end ; English, Canterbury, St. Augustine's

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): "Liber Sancti Augustini Cant'" (verso of flyleaf), s. xiii ex. "Liber monasterii Sancti Augustini Anglorum apostoli. D.iiii. Gra. i a T. [?] C. [?]" in the same hand, s. xv ex., as in Laud Misc. 385, fol. 1r. Former pastedown (the leaf of a Gregorian sacramentary) in front now Lat. liturg d. 16, fol. 9; pastedown at end missing (?); clear traces remain. Stamped leather binding, "early 16th-cent. Canterbury work". (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

J. Bill, London bookseller, c. 1606. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 265
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 266

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.