MS. Bodl. 692
Summary Catalogue no.: 2508
Contents
Notebook of Dr. John Lawerne monk of Worcester, D.D. of Gloucester College, Oxford
Miscellaneous contents including:
Sermons, including one preached before the king at Oxford.
Scholastic exercises and disputations.
Letters and notes relating to Worcester Priory (including a copy of the inscription on the tomb of prior Thomas Ledbury) and Gloucester College.
Language(s): Latin with a little English (fols. 2v, 31v, 87, etc.)
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 165 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 303 × 225 mm.
Layout
1 col., variable number of lines, written space usually occupies the whole page, 303 × 225 mm. .
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Entries cover the years c. 1442-c. 1449 while the writer was a student monk at Gloucester College, Oxford.
Probably acquired between 1605 and 1611.
Record Sources
Description adapted (2019) from the following sources, with reference to other published literature cited in the description:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 110 [physical description, origin, provenance]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, acquisition]
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-03-27: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson and SC.