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MS. Bodl. 716

Summary Catalogue no.: 2630

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 246v)
Colophon: Explicit etcetera Scriptus oxonie Anno domini mº ccccº 3º

Fols. 247–255v contain tables in a later hand.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 255 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 345 × 245 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 53-c. 56 lines, column space 240–50 × 80 mm.

Hand(s)

Two hands: (1) fols. 1–69v, 133v-246v; (2) fols. 73–133.

Decoration

Penwork (Pächt and Alexander, addenda)

Coloured initials.

History

Origin: 1403 ; English, Oxford

Provenance and Acquisition

Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds, purchased by fr. John Cranewys: ‘Secunda pars postillatoris super sacram scripturam de empcione fratris Johannis Cranewys precij iii marcarum’ (fol. iii verso).

Pembroke College, Cambridge, pressmark ‘A. 8. 1’

Perhaps purchased from John Edwards, bookseller, London, 1613.

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2019) from the following sources, and with reference to published sources cited in the description:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 111 [contents, physical description, origin, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, addenda (by B. Barker-Benfield) (1974), p. 10 [decoration]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, provenance, acquisition]
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 458
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 459

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-03-25: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson and SC.

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