A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Bodl. 715

Summary Catalogue no.: 2622

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fleuronnée initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 391)

History

Origin: 13th century, first half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr: 'Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi . . . B.220'. (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 161. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.