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MS. Bodl. 413

Summary Catalogue no.: 2309

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Adalbert of Metz , 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

Origin: 12th century, middle; added decoration, 15th century ; English, Reading

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).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 202

Bibliography

    Online resources:

    MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

    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.