MS. Bodl. 585
Summary Catalogue no.: 2357
Physical Description
MS. Bodl. 585 – Part 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Followed by notes and verses about St Albans on fol. 17.
See Howlett in Trans. Cambridge Bib. Soc. 6 (1972–6), 195–200 at 198–9.
The articles Anglia (fol. 18v), Animal (fol. 41v) and Cirus (fol. 45r): see Howlett, op. cit.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 20 lines, written space 150 × 80 mm.
Decoration
Coloured initials, rubrics.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
This section is a detached part of Cambridge, University Library, MS. Dd.6.7, which has ‘liber domini edmundi shenley ’ on fol. 152v and the ex libris of St Albans Abbey on fols. iii and 1. Presumably written after 1440 (when the Granarium seems to have been completed) and before 12 Dec. 1448 when Shenley migrated from St Albans to Wymondham.
Presented by Sir George More in 1604.
MS. Bodl. 585 – Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Decoration
Penwork. (Pächt and Alexander, Concordance and Addenda, p. 9)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
For date see Pächt and Alexander, Concordance and Addenda, p. 9.
London, Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Francis, without Aldgate, of Franciscan nuns (?) : evidence of contents. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).
Presented by Charles Howard, earl of Nottingham, in 1604.
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.