MS. Bodl. 444
Summary Catalogue no.: 2385
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MS. Bodl. 444 – Part 1
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Here without title, but with the prologue to Orosius giving the author's name.
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Provenance and Acquisition
On origin and date see T. Webber, Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075–c. 1125 (1992), pp. 12-13
Fols. 1-27: Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see removed from Sherborne in 1078: 'Iste liber est ec[...]' s. xiii; cf. Salisbury Cath. 162: 'Iste liber est ecclesie Sarr'; other MSS. have 'Liber ecclesie Sarr'. (MLGB3: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe).
The same scribe s. xii wrote the letters 'D.M.' as a 'nota bene' sign in the margins of Aberdeen UL 216, Bodl. 392, 444 (fols. 1–27), 756, 765, 768, 835; Fell 1, 4; Rawl. C.723; Salisbury Cath. 10, 24, 25, 37, 67, 78, 88, 106, 128, 129, 135, 140, 154, 159, 165. Cf. Bodley 835, which is in similar script. Bound up with a larger MS. in s. xvii. (MLGB3)
Acquired not later than 1602.
MS. Bodl. 444 – Part 2
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Appears to have been acquired about 1620, and bound with the earlier acquisition.
MS. Bodl. 444, endleaf
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Language(s): Latin
Portion of a sermon for Advent (?).
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2 cols., 164 mm. width
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MS. Bodl. 444, endleaf
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Language(s): Latin
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2024-11: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.