MS. Bodl. 565
Summary Catalogue no.: 2351
William Wey; England (?Edington), 1462 × 1476
Contents
Texts on pilgrimage written and/or compiled by Wey, including accounts of his pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in 1456, and to Jerusalem in 1457–8 and again in 1462. Printed from this the unique MS. in The itineraries of William Wey, [ed. B. Bandinel?], Roxburghe Club, 75 (1857).
List of contents, in two later hands, dividing the text into fifteen sections
The itineraries of William Wey, pp. xxxi-xxxii.
The itineraries of William Wey, pp. xxviii
Fols. 1 and 2 were originally bound in the reverse of their current position.
Item 1 in the table of contents; account of monetary conversion rates and advice about money. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 2–3.
Item 2; recommendations and practical advice for pilgrims. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 4–7.
Item 3; verses on the Holy Places (DIMEV 1477). The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 8–19.
Item 4; mnemonics on the Holy Places. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 19–25.
Item 5; list of ten reasons for pilgrimage, including itinerary and notable places and relics on the journey. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 25–55.
Items 6 and 7; account of Wey's 1458 Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. No rubric. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 56–79.
Item 8; table of towns and distances en route. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 79–81.
Item 9; account of Wey's 1462 pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 82–102.
Item 10; tables of English-Greek, Greek-Latin, and Latin-Hebrew vocabulary. No rubric. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 102–116.
Item 11 ('Item de ciuitate Venecie et eorum dominiis et aliis locis a Venecia ad Ierusalem et aliis terris, et de reliquiis per viam et de dubiis motis et solutis'); miscellaneous section. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 117–28.
Item 12; list of places on Wey's map of the Holy Land. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 128–32.
Alphabetical table of places on Wey's map. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 132–8.
Item 13; list of distances between places in the Holy Land. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 138–40.
Table of Greek-Latin vocabulary. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 140–2.
Item 14, list of indulgences in Rome and other notes on Roman churches. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 142–52.
Item 15, account of Wey's 1456 pilgrimage to Compostela. The itineraries of William Wey, pp. 153–61.
Song with music
Miscellaneous texts relating to Compostella
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
1 col. (except in the tables on fols. 49v-50v, 67–76v, 86–89); c. 30 lines, but variable. Frame-ruled with pricks in all four margins.
Square notation on staves of four lines (fol. 101v).
Decoration
Blue initials with penwork flourishing in red, fols. 17r-34r, 35r-49r, 76r-78r, 92r.
Rubrics and running headings in red, fols. 17r-34r.
Initials touched in red throughout, except fols. 102–105.
Binding
Traces on the front and back pastedowns of an earlier binding on four thongs fastened into two holes.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by Wey. Written after his third pilgrimage, 1462, and before his death in 1476, perhaps after his entry to the Bonhommes of Edington around 1467.
Given by him to the house of Bonhommes, Edington, Wiltshire: ‘ex dono magistri Willelmi Wey quondam socij collegij regalis beatissime marie Etone iuxta Windesoram huic sancto monasterio de Edyngton qui videlicet magister obijt Anno domini .Mo.cccxlxxvj xxx die mensis nouembris’ (fol. 105v).
The book 'of materys of Jerusalem, the second folio To every bayok', kept in the chapel of the sepulchre at Edington (fol. 2v).
Apparently bound and decorated at the costs of Edington: 'pro ligatura huius libri et 47tem literis iij s.' (back pastedown, in the same hand as items on fols. 1–2).
‘John Edwardes’, late 16th cent. (back pastedown)
‘Ex dono ma(gist)ri Tempest 1624’ (front pastedown)
Presumably acquired by the Bodleian that year, but not referenced until after the Civil War.
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-06-12: Improvements to markup.