MS. Bodl. 413
Summary Catalogue no.: 2309
Contents
Speculum Gregorii
, Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Initials. Good marginal sketches added, 15th century. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 145, pl. XCIII)
Binding
Poor red leather (early 16th cent.) on older boards, probably Reading work.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading, Berkshire, Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hic est Liber sancte Marie de Radingia Qui eum celaverit vel fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
William Burdett of Sonning, 1608. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Bibliography
Online resources:
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 5: Fragments - Mass Books (typescript, 1957), p. 203
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-04-04: Add binding information from Summary Catalogue.