MS. Bodl. 592
Summary Catalogue no.: 2365
Contents
In two parts (see fol. 80), with a table of the chapters of each part prefixed
In 92 + 46 chapters
Apparently copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS. 472, partway through that manuscript's process of correction (Michael G. Sargent, 'Some codicological observations on manuscripts of Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection', in Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney, edited by Margaret Connolly, Holly James-Maddocks, and Derek Pearsall (2022), pp. 183-199 at 189-190.
Physical Description
Decoration
Illuminated capitals.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Apparently in Dorset in the 16th century: on fol. iv is a copy of an agreement by Isabella Edrygge of Lyme Regis, 1515, 'per me fratrem Thomam Sutton Glastonie cellerium forinsicum'; fol. v, an acknowledgement of a debt by Thomas Bragg of Thornecombe in Devonshire, in Latin (16th century); fol. vi, a copy of a letter from Nicholas Webber of Lyme Regis (16th century)
'John Deare', 1583 (fol. iii)
'John Peache', fol. 186v (early 17th cent)
Presented by Joseph Maynard, late fellow of Exeter college, Oxford, on 8 May 1662, having been bought by him at Dorchester on 22 November 1660
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-12-26: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)