MS. Bodl. 716
Summary Catalogue no.: 2630
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
, Postilla super nouum testamentum (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.
History
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]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-03-25: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson and SC.