MS. Bodl. 619
Summary Catalogue no.: 2151
Contents
1.
, Treatise on the astrolabe 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
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
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.
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
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-06: Description revised to incorporate all information in the Summary Catalogue.