MS. Bodl. 426
Summary Catalogue no.: 2327
Physical Description
Binding
Stamped leather, English, late 16th century.
Accompanying Material
Fol. i is a marginal fragment containing a thirteenth-century note on a philosophical (?) treatise.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Presented by Sir Walter Cope in 1602.
MS. Bodl. 426 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 31 lines, written space 240 × 170–5 mm.
Hand(s)
Modified Irish script. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 6)
History
Provenance
The scribe also wrote charters of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, dated 838 and 847 (BL MSS Cotton Augustus II. 20, II. 37, and VIII. 36, Sawyer nos. 1438, 298).
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury: ‘Di.III.Gª IIII’ ‘Liber sancti augustini Cantuariensis’, late 13th-early 14th century, fol. iv verso.
St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury: BA1.137 in the late-fifteenth century catalogue (ed. Barker-Benfield, I, 419; = BA7.7 = BA8.7); "cum A." (added to title, fol. 1r); seen by Leland at the abbey (MLGB3).
MS. Bodl. 426 – Part 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ends at the end of fol. 261r with 'regnum celorum secundum', a few lines being left untranscribed.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
Penwork border, initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 950).
History
Provenance
Arms of Bury St. Edmunds abbey, and initials of William Babington, abbot 1446–1453.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (12 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2018-11-23: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson, Pächt and Alexander, and SC.