MS. Bodl. 684

Provenance and Acquisition

Windsor, Berkshire, Royal collegiate chapel of St George: 'Orate pro anima reuerendi in Christo patris domini Iohannis Marschull nuper Landauensis episcopi et canonici istius Collegii qui hunc librum dedit ad communem vtilitatem hic studentium', c. 1500, under a label covered by talc and affixed to the front cover of the 17th-century Oxford binding. 'Constabat doctori Marshall episcopo Landavensi quondam hic cano⟨ni⟩co qui contulit hunc librum Collegio de Wyndesore. Qui alienaverit anathema sit Amen (s. xvi, on flyleaf at end). No sign of the original chain mark (MLGB3)

John Marshall was Bishop of Llandaff 1478–1496. He gave two books and bequeathed a further eight books to Merton College (see Powicke, Medieval books of Merton Coll., pp. 219, 222) (MLGB3)

If this manuscript came in 1612 as part of the gift of the Dean and chapter of Windsor it may be 'Hugo de Sancto Victore de Sacramentis folio' (Benefactors' Register), and Hugo's name occurs in the first column of fol. 10, as having defined a sacrament, while in the 1620 Catalogue this manuscript is certainly described as Hugo's. On the other hand, MS. Bodl. 773 has some claims to be considered the Windsor book referred to. Perhaps both came in 1612, and this one, having no title or colophon, escaped the Benefactors' Register, cf. MS. Bodl. 697

The Bodleian acquired this volume before 1655