MS. Bodl. 619

Summary Catalogue no.: 2151

Rubric: Brede and milke for children

Incipit: Lyte Lowys my sone

Explicit: (section 40)by thy tables houre after houre

Then adds in the original hand another section, printed by Skeat (E. E. T. S. Extra Series, No. xvi.) at 46, probably spurious.

Language(s): Middle English

2. (fol. 70v)

Office of st. Erasmus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 72 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 6.25 × 4.375 in.

Hand(s)

Scribe identified by Simon Horobin (2009) as Stephen Dodesham

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Great Malvern, Benedictine Priory (?)

'Constat More de Mychelmalvarn Menoch,' i.e. Great Malvern (?) 15th cent. (fol. 69v).

Given by dr. Edward James, and received on March 10, 1613/4.

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2020) from the Summary Catalogue (1922) with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 232

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Simon Horobin, ‘The Scribe of Bodleian Library MS Bodley 619 and the Circulation of Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe’, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 31.1 (2009), 109–24

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 376

Online resources:

Late Medieval English Scribes

MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-07-06: Description revised to incorporate all information in the Summary Catalogue.

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