MS. Bodl. 419
Summary Catalogue no.: 2318
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols
Binding
The binding in 1655 was velvet
The title-label, metal bosses, clasps, clasp fittings, and corner-pieces were re-imposed on a leather binding of the 2nd half of the 17th century. The bosses have now disappeared
(For a list of manuscripts with comparable bindings, see MS. Bodl. 218)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
MS. Bodl. 419 – Part 1 was priced at 10s. 8d. in the 14th century.
Owned by Iohannes Smyth de Conygsby [Coningsby, Lincolnshire], early 15th century
(fol. 208r) 'liber [M. Iohannis] Gigur emptus de Iohanne Smyth de Conygsby', 'precium dimidium marce'. John Gygour (d. 1504) was master of Tattershall college and the donor of several other surviving books (see: MLGB3) and may have given this volume to the college (see below). However, MLGB3 notes that evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house might not be evidence for institutional ownership.
Tattershall, Lincolnshire, Collegiate church of the Holy Trinity and St Mary the Virgin: visible in the list made in the summer of 1528 by a visitor to Tattershall Collegiate church, where it is recorded as SC314.*8x
Owned by Henry VIII. See MS. Bodl. 218
Presented by Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, in 1604 (MLGB3)
MS. Bodl. 419 – Part 1
Contents
Short discourses on religious and moral subjects, in alphabetical order of the first word. The first three articles are Arcus, Adversarius, Asperges me; the last are Vota, Zebus and Zona
Short pieces (mostly metrical) on Confession, the Deadly Sins, etc., including:
Intrant & pugnant
The share of the twelve Prophets and twelve Apostles in the Apostles' Creed
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 419 – Part 2
Contents
Part of an elaborate treatise on Virtues, in five parts (part 1 on virtue in general; part 2 on the three theological virtues; part 3 on the four cardinal virtues; part 4 on spiritual gifts; and part 5 on the beatitudes) The manuscript ends (unfinished) with the words 'amentur que amanda' in the 16th chapter of the second book, the verso of the last leaf being left blank.
Physical Description
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-11-16: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)