MS. Bodl. 718
Summary Catalogue no.: 2632
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine marginal drawings. Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 36, pl. III)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
Dean and chapter of Exeter, 1602. (MLGB3)
2 o folio: "tu fuit". Same script as Sherborne Pontifical (Paris, BnF, lat. 943) and Rabanus at Exeter. (MLGB3)
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (39 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 66
Elaine M. Drage, “Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072 : a Reassessment of the Manuscript Evidence.” (D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1979), pp. 407-10
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.